Road to Peking is Now Open
NATIONALISTS’ ADVANCE JAPANESE REPEL RABBLE (United P.A — By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Senior) Reed. 12.10 p.m. TOKYO, Tues. The first reliable advices from Peking state that the South China Nationalist forces entered Ts»-nan-fu unopposed on Tuesday morning. This indicates that the route to Peking is now virtually opened, and possibly foreshadows the retreat of General Chang Tso-lin from Peking to Mukden. It is stated that xhe majority of the Shantung troops evacuated Tsai-uan on Monday, and are retreating to the north of the Y'ellow River, leaving only police units at Tupan. which Chang-Chung-Chang. of Shantung, remained to command, but there are no reports of Chang-Chuug-Chang having been captured. Official advises state that Japanese troops guarding the Japanese quarter at Tsi-nan shot and killed one of the 300 Shantung rabble which was attempting to loot a Japanese shop.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 343, 2 May 1928, Page 9
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