FRONTIER TROOPS REACH PEKIN.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 169, 19 July 1920, Page 5

FRONTIER TROOPS REACH PEKIN.

[Press Association.] (Reuters Telegrams.)

PEKIN, July 16. The advance of the troops of the Fifteenth Division, ■ supported by guns, drove back Wupeifu's outposts. Twenty-one were wounded. Tlie frontier troops reached Pekin on Friday, and are fighting the outposts. Near Lofa, . the frontier troops, using old French aeroplanes, are scouting* with Chinese pilots. A later message states that Wupeifu surrounded and captured a whole brigade of frontier troops. Two regiments of the Fifteenth Division went over to Wupeifu. Later: Fighting is proceeding at two points. The wounded, avlio are arriving in trains from Tientsin, vrere attacked.