CHINA.

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CHINA.

FIGHTING BEGUN

ROYALISTS' POSITION CONSID-

ERED HOPELESS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT.

PEKING, July 7. General Chang Shim's royalist troops are fighting a large force of Republicans 35 miles from Pekin. It is feared that Chang Shim's position is hopeless. Chang Shim's ta-oops have torn up the. railway at Langsang, midway between Tientsin and P.ekin. It is understood the Foreign Powers are sending detachments to restore railway communi. cation. Anglo-French, Japanese, and American troops are proceeding fto Pekin to reinforce the Legation- guards.