Peking, May 2.
Fighting continues without' intermission at Changsintien, on the bank of the Hunho and northwards of Kuan, but up to the present no material advantage has been gained.
According to reports from foreign observers on the Chihli side, General Wu Pei-fu was recently direeting operations at Changsintien and "endeavouring to get good fighting out of Tsao Kun's poor troops," rending the arrival of General Feng Vu-hsiang's forces, which began to reach Paotingfu yesterday. The reports assert that General Wu's own troops did not take part in the fighting at Changsintien. This may explain the indecisive character of the Chihli attacks, resembling German frontal methods, without supports, which made the Germans effective.
While no fault is found with the courage of the troops, who frequently faced heavy casualties, foreign military critics point out that a determined attack pressed home, a counter-attack at the right moment, might have changed the position' at Changsintien tin one day. The heavy bombardments have depleted the guns of ammuni-
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