The Archive · 1925

Retreat on City

Peking, July 6.

'A despatch from Chungking says that the situation is somewhat unsettled. General Yang Sen is reported to have wired to the Government offering to occupy the city if the defeated generals who have fallen back from Chungking are unable to keep order. In spite of the offers of the latter to prevent this eventuality there have been some disturbances. Two nights age daring a demonstration around the foreign compound a demonstrator wa: wounded by a Chinese gendarme's, bayonet. This is stated-to be more or less accidental, but it has aroused strong feeling—Reuter.

Rumours were current yesterday, that foreigners had been evacuated, but these cSGid not be confirmed.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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