Tsingtao, April 30, nese troops, which for Tsinan Inst night trains, were compelled to. stop ait Changtien this morning, Lieut= General Fukuda, the Commander-in-Chie€ of the. Japanese forces, sent a Japanese Consular gifieial and a Japanese employe of the Kiaochno-'Toman Railway Bureau to Talinchih in an unarmed guard-train, to negotiate peacefully with the Southern Army at Mingshui for the Passage of the Japanese troops.
According to a despatch received ly the War Office, to-day, the Southern forces entered Tsinan at tone o'clock thig morning, Marshal Chang Chung-chang and) Marshal Sun Chuan-fang evacuating late last night. The Northern forces, the despatch adds, are retreating. in the direction of Tehchow, Chinese gendarmes and police are now. maintaining order in Tsinan, but there was looting throughout the city during the night—Reuter.
Headquarters Moved to' Tsinanfu Nanking, May 1.
A telegram from Yenchow that Commander-in-Chief Chiang. Kai-shek has ordered the removal of his provisional Headquarters at Yerchow to Tsinan, in order to be close to the operations and to)
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