Advance Making Progress at Considerable Cost Shanghai, May 30.
According to news from reliable} sources, the recent report of a heavy Southern defeat in Honan was not true: on the contrary, the Southern advance through Honan northward appears to be making progress, though at considerable cost, as' the contitiued arrival of many wounded at Hankow testifies, while Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang is reported to have captured Kunghsien, an important Northern arsenal close to the Yellow River, 40 miles west of Chengchow, While we give the foregoing in formation with due reserve, the fact that the Fengtien Headquarters Peking are most reticent, and thi the Peking Censor is active, is re garded as significant, as is also the news of the likelihood of the despatch of Japanese troops to Tientsin [a8 well as to Tsingtao—Reuter.
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