CHINESE UPHEAVAL
SERIOUS FIGHTING. FOUR DAYS ENGAGEMENT. United Press Assh.—By Electric , ! ' •* Telegraph Copyright, g (Received 11-40 a.m.) ,\ -d .j ; SHANGHAI, May 25. Fightang on the Peking-Hankow railway has assumed serious proportions, and during the four day® eijf "gagfs intent- jt'bje Northern er,s- jphcbun-, tered the first Kuowinchun . army wnielSfj is; winning ground at every encounter and now is. hearing Chougtin£< '" -' , . Tad- capture of Suiyan i s reported to be; due to- the Northerners wrthdrawal, froth HeilungkiaSg. Cavalry is now parsing - through Tientsin for the purpose or dealing; with raiders omthe centre line between, the two railways..' while, reorganised Shantung armies are .moving southwards from Tsangchp>v, through the ;.emipty,.Hej'rit;orieH ;: lately abandi>ne^l' by the Southerners,,, ... , impression""'/J the situation seeih s to. be Chat "he. Northcampaign against Feng-yuh-siang in. H>e hope of his complete elimination. Eiglit linndred,Japanese troops, the vanghaiC of the NagWa division, have i arrived at Tientsin and three -thousand . nu/:s wifl arrive 'to-mor-row.—United Service.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 26 May 1928, Page 6
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