Peking, Oct, 8.
The General Headquarters of the Fengtien forees In the region of the me have been located at main storees the districts of io and Tingehow. It is stated all preparations have been completed, the Fengtien forces have decided to launch a general attack to-night or at- dawn tomorrow, aiming at Niangtzukuan.
It is said that the strengths of the Fengtien and Shansi Armies in, the Kin-Han Railway region are equal, namely, some 40,000 men each.
Shansi "plain-clothes. soldiers, Jabout 1,000 and in number, crossed the Futoho River and made an assault on the vanguard of the Fengtien forces in the neighbourhood of Chengtipg on September 3, but their attack ended in a fiasco. About one half of the Shansi soldiers were taken prisoners and disarmed by the Fengtien troops.
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