FIGHTING IN CHINA.
JAPANESE IN SHANTUNG. (United Press Association—By Electrie Telegraph—Copyright.) SHANGHAI/ May 2. A Japanese news agency rejSorts that the withdrawal has been ordered from Tsinanfu of the Japanese troops serlt to protect National, as the crisis has passed, and order has been restored. Other reports stote that the Japanese forces are continuing towards Tsinanfu, and have already conflicted with Chinese looters, necessitating the use of firearms. The Southern troops are well disciplined. The Northerners are scattered lenderless, and are retreating pell-mell across the Yellow River, The Shantung province is rapidly filling with Northern deserters and defeated troops. The authorities are preparing to offer a stubborn desistance to the Southerners. The next objective is believed to be Tientsin, which is occupied with many foreign troops.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17947, 4 May 1928, Page 9
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