AFFAIRS IN CHINA

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1920, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN CHINA

(By Electric Telegraph—CoDyriant.. CHINESE FIGHTING. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PEKIN, July 16. CTiili circles stato Anflu troops soucli of LiotiHho suffered defeat. There were six hundred casualties. Fighting was resumed later. A brigade of thirteen the frontier divison was outflanked and surrendered. A report, from the same source states two brigades of Enkouchang’s troops surrendered to Chihli forces. Later messages state, fighting which started yestereve continues i.n the Pokin-Tientsin railway. Wounded continue to arrive from Liuliho. 1), plomats are considering necessary me> surcs in view of a severance of the railway and telegraph communication since yesterday.

JAPANESE ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) TOKJO, July 17. The Foreign Office lias issued a eommuniqite announcing that Japan was not participating in the present troubles in China, Japan maintaining a strict neutrality in internal feuds in China. MORE FIGHTING. PEKIN, July 17. Fighting between the troops of rival factions broke out at Kwainshum. The wounded are arriving here. The capital is quiet. Mediators who set out to attempt to reconcile the contending parties, have returned to Pekin, their mission having failed. A message from Tientsin states a train bearing foreign military commanders proceeding in the direction of Yangstun, was halted at Peisang, where the commander of the Chichli forces states he was forced by Japanese troops posted at Yaungsekun to remove his troops two miles distant from either sido of tiie railroad, thus creating a four milo Japanese front! He added that he was compelled to retreat to Peisang to avoid a China-Japanese incident.