The Amkuochun spokesman, intér-bby newspaper correspondents this afternoon, declared that the Mukden armies hed deliberately @eaym the main Shansi army, con-Alsting of 80,000 troops, almost up Paotingfu and then had sent forces vid Ankuo to Tingehow to fut off their retreat. Most of the! Shansi troops had been foreed to abandon the railway and flee to the The tatest message from Marshal hang Hsush-liang, the spokesman dgelared, says that his troops orel. out to enter Chengting, but, conry to previous statements, the hansi troops are still holding Ahihehiachuang, though the Féngen. authorities' hourly expect news Of the capture of this city.
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