General Li Ching-lin agai treated to-day almost to the limits, where he made a despera ally and subsequently advanced to Peitsang, about three miles-—Reuter's Pacific Service, Tokyo, Dec. 23.
A Peking despatch states that according to an announcement sued by the Kuominchun headquarters, General Feng Vu-hsiang's troops, on the 2st, started a gen-attack upon General Li Ching-lin's forces with the result that the defences of the latter were broken through and that the Kuominchun forces yesterday captured Tientsin, though no confirmation has been received in this respect—Eastern, News Agency.
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