Interest in the Anti-Northern Expedition has been overshadowed by the Tsinanfu Affair. In spite of the clash with the Japanese, -the Nationalists have been pushing forward, They have crossed the Yellow River and captured Yucheng. Their objective now is Tehchow, wher re there is an arsenal and where strong northern forces are prepared to put up a defence.
Along the Peking-Hankow Railway, the Northerners have evacuated Changteh and withdrawn to Shuntehfu but the Kuomin chun do not appear to to pressing on.
'The Shansi forces have been repulsed' with heavy losses, according to Ankuochun reports.
Meanwhile, the morale of the Northern forces has been revived and order restored in their ranks, From Roowey Girsexr Peking, May 4
Ankuochun officers report no further fighting, but claim that the Kuominchun are retiring en bloc on the Kin-Han Railway towards the Yellow River.
Vague intelligence reports _in-diorite some conflict between General Fan Chung-hsin and Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang in Honan, which might account partially for a Kuomin chun withdrawal, A Chinese officer, returning from Tehchow, says that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's tenth Division is reshaping there, while the other sup-poseily lost. units are drifting in.
On the upper section of the Tsin-Pu Railway yesterday he passed large bodies of General Wan Fu-in's Eighth Army and the Heilung-Kiang (north Manchuria) troops proceeding to Tehchow.
Many senior officers of the Hei-Jungkiang forces were formerly in General Ho Feng-li fourth Division at Shanghai.
This ex-piaing his assumption of the command of the Ankuochun's new Tehchow defence line, anize their forces around Tehchow, with the intention of counter-attacking Tsinan, for which purpose, it is stated, several armoured trains' will be placed on the north bank of the Yellow River, from which point they will carry out a long-range bombardment of the Shantung capital.—Reuter.
Mukden's Position Mukden, Apr. 2
The reverses of the northern armies in Shantung have reacted surprisingly little on the fengpiao, the exchange rate of which has been fairly steady, at about 28 to the large dollar.
This may be due to Governor Liu to it by selling some of the large stocks of beans and kaoliang the possession of the provincial] government. He is reported as having already advised the branches of the Eastern Provincial Bank at Tichling, Kaiyuan and Kungcholing to this effect.
Harbin paper dollars, the official quotation of which had been fixed by Marshal Chang at silver dollars 74 per 100, slumped to 69 on the 25th.
Peking, May 4.
Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and General Yang Vu-ting left Peking: the urgent summons of} Generalissimo Chang Tso-lin, Gen. Wu Chun-sheng left Mukden for Peking yesterday, accompanied by for the noon.
It Kin-Han front this after- about 70 officers' is believed that the under him available for service All the Northern authorities may take) the front will. be despatched advantage of the Tsinanfu imbroglio to prosecute a vigorous campaign against the Nationalists.—Reuter.
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