CIVIL WAR IN CHINA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18545, 4 May 1922, Page 7

CIVIL WAR IN CHINA

GENERAL WU PEI-FTJ’S OPERATIONS. THRUST AT PEKING. \ - \ ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT STOPPED. Press -Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, May 2. (Received May 3, at,5.5 p.m.) The United Press correspondent at Shanghai states that reports from Chowchow, the headquarters of General Wu Pei-fu, admit General E eng Tein’s accurate artillery fire frustrated an encircling movement south-west of Pekin? and stopped the launching of fresh attacks. Chang-Sin-teen is facing the heaviest artillery,, the casualties exceeding 1000 yesterday. General Wu Pei-fu’s chief of staff accuses General Feng Tein of employing Japanese gun-pointers, which explains his superior accuracy.—A. and N.Z., Cable. HEAVY CANNONADING. > CONCENTRATION ON HUN-HO RIVER. PRECAUTIONS IN PEKING. PEKING, May 3. (Received May 3, at 9.5 p.m.) The heavy cannonading is now extending from Machung to Peking. Both sides are massing heavy forces on the Hun-ho River, 30 miles from Peking. General Wu Pei-fu is attempting to cross to take possession of the Peking-Tientsin railway. It is believed that Peking is safe from attack. The city gates are shut at night and Chinese troops patrol the .city. The casualties in the Chang-Sin-teen battle are now The French railway workers narrowly escaped when an aeroplane dropped bombs on the railway shops at Chang-Sin-teen.— A. and N.Z. Cable.