The opposing forces are now holding their own against each other in the area between Peking and Tien-lands) Minister, to-day handed the Waichiaopu a memorandum dated December 18 acknowledging! receipt of a memorandum dated! December 16 containing a communication from General Feng Yuhsiang relating to the firing by Chinese troops on two motorcars, flying foreign flags, which were on their way to Tientsin from Peking.
M, Oudendijk states that he did not fail to lay this memorandum before the other Ministers and they' desire that he should state that! while they are prepared to warn their nationale of the danger of crossing the battle line during the tsin, Kuominchun reinforcements, 15,- 000 strong, have been despatched to the front with a view, it is reported, of commencing a gen attack upon General Li Ching-lin's of a severe battle is ut General - Lu mander-in-Chief of the Metropolitan] Forces, and General Li Ming-chung, Commander of the 6th Kuominchun Division, are now at the front, rendering assistance to General Chang Chih-chiang, Commander of the 5th Kuominchun Division—Eastern News Agency,
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