Peking, May 18.
According to apparently reliable reports from French sources, "the Fengtien armies have taken' the offensive near Paotingfu and have obtained initial successes, inflicting heavy losses on the " Kuominchun and the Shansi forees—Reuter, Marshal Sun Commands Tsin-Pu Tientsin, May 17.
Marshal Sun Chuan-fang left here for the front at Tsangchow today. He has. assumed office as Commander-in-Chief of the Northern forces in the region of the Peking-Tientsin Railway and future activity in that region Yeing watched by the public ith Shantung Troops to be Disarmed Peking, May 17.
The Shantung forces, which retreated to Tsangchow abandoning Tehchow, have entirely lost their moral, and their strength has now eon reduced to less than 20,009 men as the result of their suecesive defeat Ag the existence fous to the operate tien forces in that region the Jeulors in Peking, taking advantage of Marshal Chang Chung-chang's Visit, have decided to withdraw the Shantung troops to Tientsin and elsewhere and to disarm them—alo.
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