Peking, May 2.
An attack in force is being delivered by the Chibli troops in the vicinity of Machang, and the operation is being personally conducted by Gen, Wu Pei-fu, who is reported to have 10,000 troops engaged. The Fengtien forces, under the son of Chang Tso-lin, admit being hard pressed, but further troops have arrived at Fengtai for service on this front.
Conditions in Honan_being unsatisfactory to Gen. Wu Pei-fu, and with expected difficulties in his rear, he is immediately moving the remainder of his army.
Mr. E. S. Bennett. a student interpreter of the British Legation, was shot to-day at Changsintien by a stray bullet, while observing the operations in company with Col: Orpen Palmer, the Military, Attache, whom he was accompanying us interpreter.
The bullet passed through the top of his skull, but did not touch the brain, though he has been only semi-conscious since the accident.
His doctor thinks that he wilk recover. Members of the Chinese Red Cross Society dressed the wound and the patient was brought to Peking in a motor car.
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