How extremely difficult it is to tell which side is getting the best of affairs in the encounter between the Chekiang und Fengtien forces may be perceived from. the two following telegrams. We print them exactly as, in which, they army to" Pengpur—Reuter's ad Rerviee.
Hankow, Oct. 1 received shal Wa Pel ishing high see Toatng"nushose tien forces, who.
made of the Slee tha moe Ailied_ troops. comtinue.'to. advance Hasohowsu, it will be recalled,-has, alrendy fallen to each side once. Haichow is supposed to have been captured by Fengtien, in the grandiose combined movement by sea and innd which a Tsingtao correspondent describes to-day. Yet the Chekiang headquarters are. positive that it is still firmly held by General Bei Bao-san, Representatives of both parties in Shanghai are equally certain thut. the friends are winning. To-day the Chekiang headquarters are claiming victory, and, if they appear more positive than their opponents, it perhaps, that they are better plac to get a hearing in Shanghai. But st the moment of writing the only thing which seems safe to belie that nothing has been done of any importance.
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