Chaoyang Said to Be Captured with Guns and Rifles by Second Fe fengtien Army Mukden, Sept. 21.
General Li Ching-lin, commanding' the Second Fengtien Army, to-day. captured the important town of Chaoyang, taking 3,000 rifles and] six field-guns. Many of the new type of trench mortars were employed by the Fengtien troops with great success.
General Wu, of Heilungkiang, commanding the Fil Fengtien Army, will attack Kailu to-day, troops numbering 3,000 at Kailu are stated to have made over~ tures for surrender.—Reuter's Pa fie Service, Peking, Sept. 22.
Accortting to independent reports from Shanhaikuan the Government troops on September 21 came into contact with the Fengtien advance guards. The latter retreated, while the former following up suffered some casualties from land mines and later came into touch with the main Fengtien advanced force at Wanchiatun, wher lery fire nightfall.
The "Hsing Pao' reports. that Ge i Ching-lin's Tenth Feng-1 tien Brigade attacked Government forces in the region of Chaoyat September 20, but were repulsed and driven back several miles.
Government preparati tions: one objective is Shanhaikuan, the other Jehol.
The Great Wall meets the sea at nhatkuan, through which the jing-Mukden line passes from North China into Manchuria, At Shanhaikuan then, a principal battle will presurasbly have to be fought, the Chihli troops using the Great Wall as a defence against the in-'The bombing of the planes by Marshal Chang's army was perhaps designed to prove that ancient parapets will not withstand moder warfare, The most serious danger to the Fengtien army in the Shanhs Jobjective is that beyond that city the country is still flooded and that troops may not be to Peking through inundated territory. The idl campaign secks to offset thi The reported capture of Chaoyang yesterday must be taken to mean that the movement toward Jehol has commenced seriously.
Jehol is northeast of Peking a central point between Manchuria, golia and Chibli. For military ses it has been included the defences agai Mongolia, and although geo vhically within Chihli province, i outside the Great Wall and is for Unexpectedly, the said divisions Jwere worsted repeatedly in fighting, with the result that the two important barriers of Kiangshan and Changshan were successively lost.
I stuck obstinately to. the principle of keeping my territory: fat such a moment, I should soon find myself hampered right and left, mot only with fatal results to our military strategy, but also adverse ly. affecting the whole national situation. Therefore, 'I decided resign the post of Tupan of Military Reorganization Affairs by appointing an officer to act in that capacity, jiro tem: and at the same time T requested the Legislative Body jeclect m successor as soon as pos sible for the sake of the province, T have, in my telegram of September 18, already informed the gentry and people of Chekiang of all the circumstances leading to my transference to Shanghai to direct my
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