Town Threatened by Comm rusts: Successes Claimed by "Nanking: Foreign Reports Credit North with Victory Peking, July 11. it rereign sources report that fighting between General Han euch and the Shansi troops commenced on July 7.
It is stated that General Han Fu-chu met with initial sue-#8] "coss and advanced from Tzeho, but was repulsed in the fighting on July 8 and July 9 and retired again.
There is a report that Shansi troops occupied Tsingchowful $5] on duly 9, but this is not confirmed.
It is also reported that the Commander of the garrison at reingtao refused to allow General Han Fu-chu's armoured cars 891 to enter the Tsingtao area—Reuter.
Washington, July 11. vent forces not only succeeded spulsing the insurgents, but als"
ured Kuyeh, "Telegraph service" between 'Tsining and Yuncheng, in south-western Shantung, has been resumed, 'On' the Tientsin-Pukow Railway front, it is learned that the Shans troops launched heavy attacks on the Government forces in the Taiat Kafowhsien sector both on the Otit and the 7th instant. The 15th Government Army, under General Ma Hung-kuei, assisted by an A'r Squadron, succeeded, however, driving off the enemy. The. vanguards of the Government "nits are Feported to have reached as far as Takushan, in their advance northward.—Kuo M
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