REPUBLICANS DETERMINED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 7

REPUBLICANS DETERMINED

TO FINISH OFF ROYALIST GANG

LONDON, July 9. The Morning Post's lientsin correspondent says that after a two hours' battle at Lang Fang the Imperial forces retreated. The casualties were not serious. Reinforcements of Republicans are constantly arriving and moving on Pekin. A special train flying the Union Jack, with reinforcements for the foreign legations, reached Pekin. A reward of one. hundred thousand dollars has been placed on the head of Chang-Hsun, who is provisioning and fortifying the capital. The people of Pekin are quiet. Chang-Hsun and other Imperialists telegraphed to Tientsin confessing that the coup was premature, and suggesting a compromise. The Republicans, however, are determined to finish off Chang-Hsun and his gang.