SOUTHERNERS ADVANCE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 50, 3 May 1928, Page 6

SOUTHERNERS ADVANCE

ARMY WELL DISCIPLINED. NORTHERNERS LEADERLESS. United Press Assn. —By Blectria Telegraph Copyright. '(Australian Press Association —United Service). (Received 11.20 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 3. The Japanese news agency reports that the withdrawal has been ordered from ‘Tsinaiifu of the Japanese troops sent to protect t)ic Japanese nationals; aijj the crisis is passed and order restored. Other reports state the Japanese, forces are continuing towards Tsinaiifn, and have already conflicted with Chinese looters, necessitating the, use of firearms. The southern troops are well disciplined, but the northerners- are scattered and leaderless, and are retreating pel Intel a cross the Yellow River. ~The Shangtunig, Province is rapidly filling with Northern deserters and defeated' troops, and the authorities are preparing to offer stubborn resistance. The southerners’ next obt jeetive i# believed to he Tientsin, which is occupied with many foreign troops.