FIGHTING IN CHINA
AN ALLDAY BATTLE RAILWAYS CUT ROUND TIENTSIN ROADS DESTROYED PEKING, Dec. 11. TJ Ching Lin defeated Kuo Min Chun’s advanced column near Machang, fighting proceeding all day. The railways around Tientsin are all cut, and the Peking-Tientsin motor road has been destroyed in several places. BOXER PROTOCOL INVOLVED INTERNATIONALS CAUGHT IN BATTLE. AN AWKWARD SITUATION. PEKING, Dec. 132. An international train was caught in the battle of Yangisun. The passengers, including women and children, took refuge under the carriages. Nine Britishers, including Colonel and Mrs. Haslehurt, twenty Americans, and prominent Japanese, also four League of Nations Commissioners, who are visiting Manchuria in connection with plague prevention, were on tho train. It appears that a Kua-Min-Chun armoured train followed the internat ional train to Yangtsun, where it landed 1000 infantry. The artillery began .dielling Li-Ching Lin’s forces across the river.
The Legations vigorously protested r.gainst the breach of the Boxer Pro tocol involved. It is understood that arrangements are being mad** to des patch a relief train from Tientsin. The Japanese include Mochi Juki, lead pr of the Kensejai Party and Inouye Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Navy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19475, 15 December 1925, Page 7
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