FIGHTING NEAR PEKIN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 5

FIGHTING NEAR PEKIN

Received May 2, 8.50 a.m

WASHINGTON, May 1. The State Department has been advised that additional American forces, from the cruiser Albany have been sent to Pekin. Another gunboat is going to Tientsin.

PEKIN, May 1. Chang Tso Lin's forces turned back the train carrying the American Embassy officials to Mukden. The foreign Powers protested to Chang against blocking the railways, stating that it is a violation of the 1900 protocol. Wu Pei Fu's army has reached a point on the railway between Pekin and Tientsin. Other forces are marching across country to attack Chang Tso Lin south of Tientsin.

Fighting around Pekin has diminished as a result of Chang's retirement. The wounded and dead found outside the city indicate very fierce fighting.