Small Scale Engagements Near Tehchow: Shantung Troops to Invade Honan Peking, Jan. 14
Kuominchun—representa ti states that fighting on a small scale has already occurred between forees of the Kuominchun and of General Li Ching-lin in the vicinity' of Sangyuan, a few miles to the! north of Tehchow.
The Kuominchun ready to wage a defer that front, but some quarters assert that General Li Ching-lin and General Chang Chung-chang do not intend a vigorous advance agai tsin, but propose to invade Honan.
It is noteworthy in this connexion that Chinese advices from Tsinai state that all the Shuntung troops there are being sent to the south.
The Kuominchun state that defensive preparations have been also completed around Jehol and Shanhaikwar.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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