WAR IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1922, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA.

CAPITAL SURROUNDED. THE RAILWAYS CUT. DANGER OF ITS FALL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Peking, May 4. Wu Pei Fu’s troops have surrounded Peking. Chang Tso Lin’s army is scattered. All the railroads have been cut and traffic to Peking suspended. Chang’s flank was turned on Wednesday night, and he is retreating towards Fengtai. The Acting-Premier Chow Tzuehi sent an American, Roy Anderson, to negotiate with Wu Pei Fir’s commanders regarding relations with Peking Government. The President, Tsu Shi Chiang, has appealed to both sides to end hostilities. A Shanghai message states that dissension in the ranks of Sun-Yat-Sen’s Canton forces and the refusal of a. mutinous conn ler to lead an expedition against Wu i-Fu is believed to forecast an early defeat for Chang-Tso-Lin. Sun-Yat-Sen orUered General Cheung Ghieungling to attack Wu-Pei-Fu on the north, and Chieungling retorted that Wu was a patriot fighting China’s battles against Japanese dominion. Liangsian g dispatches state that Wu-Pei-Fu is expected to capture Peking by the week-end. His forces are reinforced by thousands of Christian Chinese troops, who made a forced march across the desert from Shensi, 200 miles in five days. Three Japanese gunboats have arrived at Tientsin.

Nanking reports that Admiral Tueshikui. commanding a division of the Chinese fleet, saileu for Chinwangtao for the purpose of blowing up Chang-Tso-Lin’s lines of communication.