WAR IN CHINA.
BATTLE IN PROGRESS,: FORCES NEAR CAPITAL. HEAVY CASUALTIES. By Telegraph.—Press Aseu.—Copyright. Received May 3, 9.5 p.m. Peking, May 2. Heavy cannonading is now extending from Maehung to Peking. Both sides are massing forces on the Hunho River, thirty miles from Peking. General Wu Pei Fu’s forces are attempting to cross to take possession of the Peking-Tientsin railway. It is believed Peking is safe from attack. The city gates are shut at night and Chinese troops patrol the city. The casualties in the Changsintin battle are now estimated at two thousand. French railway workers narrowly escaped when an airplane dropped bombs on the railway shops at Changsintin. A MOVEMENT FRUSTRATED. CASUALTIES FROM ARTILLERY. Received May 3, 5.5 p.m. Vancouver, May 2. The United Press correspondent at Shanghai states reports from Chowchow. the headquarters of General Wu Pei Fu, admit that General Fengtein’s , accurate artillery fire frustrated an encircling movement south-west of Peking and stopped the launching of fresh attacks. Changsinten is facing the heaviest artillery, and the casualties were over a • thousand yesterday. General Wu Pei Fu’s chief-of-staff accuses General Fengtein of employing Japanese gun pointers, which explains his superior accuracy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1922, Page 5
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