CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 7

CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

* ! ATTITUDE OF JAPANESE. PRESERVING NEUTRALITY. LANDING TO BE OPPOSED. By Telegraph—Press Associativa—CopyrisM Reuter. TOK.IO. May 1. Orders havo been issued to the. Japanese Governor at Tsingtao to prevent he land- • ing at Mukden of a force of Chinese for the purpose of attacking Wu Poi Fu ' through Shantung. The Japanese Gov- ' eminent is determined to preserve neutrality, but it is stated by reliable sources that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who was elected ' President by tho Southern Parliament, 1 will attempt to raise a loan of £4,000,000 at Osaka, pledging as security, railway, mining, and other concessions in South China. ! Japan has followed the example of • Britain by recalling the aviation instructors from tho Mukden army attached to General Chang's headquarters. ; FIERCE FIGHT INDICATED. I CHANG'S FORCES RETIRING. A. and N.Z. PEKING. May I. General Wu Tei IV army has reached a point on tho rail.vay between Pelun and Tientsin. Other forces are marching across country to attack Chang Tsao Lin's troops south of Tientsin. Fighting around Peking has diminished as the result !of Chang's retirement. Tho number of ! wounded and dead found outside the city : indicates very fierce fighting. OUT OF military field. I PEKING AND TIENTSIN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ; (Reed. 5 5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 1. j The Chinese delegation at Washington i has announced that according to advices ! received from (ho Chinese Government ' General Wu Pei Fu and General Chang , Tsao Lin havo agreed to exclude Peking and Tientsin from the field of military operations. ; The Stato Department is advised that additional American forces from tho cruiser Albany havo been sent to Peking and another gunboat is going to Tientsin. Chang Tsao Lin's forces turned back a train carrying American Embassy officials to Mukden. Tho foreign Powers protested to Chang against blocking the railways, charging him with a violation of the 1900 protocol.