Nationalist Casualties: Southerners'
Heavy Task A telegram from Tientsin to a private person in Shanghai intimates that although the Northerners lost considerable territory, the Northern armies have not suffered heavy losses and that there are prospects that they can be reorg into a fighting force before alists can imperil Peking, formation is given here cause it is believed to be an ofiei view of the Northern party.
Nationalist casualties have not been given out, but according to Jocal "Chinese " estimates, they amounted to approximately 40,000. The full effect of this cannot be discussed with any -accuraey less it is known which Nationalist armies suffered most, In Chinese circles attention is called to the fact that as the Na-
Nionalists advance northward they have to go through increasingly large numbers of Northern troops and that even should the Northern Nanking, May 5.
A telegram from the Field-Ieadquarters of the Second Group Army' stated that Tze-chow, on the Kin-Han Railway Line," in southern Chihli, fell into the hands of the! Kuominchun on the night if the 2nd inst.
A despatch from General Fens Vu-hsiang to the Military Council states that the Kuominchun attacked and completely routed the Fengtien Army at Changteh yesterday, and are now pursuing the enemy, who are retreating toward Shunteb. They have also captured some} twenty towns and villages around Changteh, together with a large quantity of ammunition. The Penk-tien Defence Corps under Hsu Yuarchuan, at Taming, was also di armed by the Kuominchun and the troops on the 3rd—Kuo Min, Northern Aeroplane Crashed Tientsin, May 7.
While bombing Tsinanfu a Northern aeroplane crashed, the occupants being killed—Reuter, funnies become disorganized and unable to resist the Nationalist advance, General Chiang Kai-shek would still be faced with the stupendous problem of handling more than a million men under arms, who are concentrated between Tehehaw and Peking.
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