Tokyo, May 25.
'A Tsinan despatch states that Japanese airman who has arrived there from Tientsin reports tha: the Southern forces are concentrated and entrenched in the vicinity of Tsangchow. The vanguard 2 the Northern troops is at Paotaochen, but there is no sign that ho: tilities are imminent, A Peking despatch, on the other hand, reports heavy fighting along the Peking-Hankow Railway, The Nationalists Inunched a strong attack on the Northern troops but were finally repulsed by a counterattack though they had forced back the Fengtien right wing.
In the meantime, it appears that Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang's main force is planning to advance between the two railways. His troops are said to be pressing northward through Hochien—Reuter,
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