Notwithstanding all these fine} promises, when the opportunity seemed good Gen.
Li and his host went overland through Tsachsien and adjacent counties and attacked Gov. Chang Chung-chang's forces crowding them back on Tsinan, I formerly reported that the! Shansi men ascribed their dete around Taianfu to an attack the rear by their supposed friends of the Sth Division under Gen.
Wang Wei-wei. There are mutual' recriminations from *hese two sour-cos. Whatever may have been the situation around Taian that sent at least 4,000 wounded men back thousand of them and they filled up all available space in houses, Jshops and godowns both in the village of Chuchi adjoining the railway station and atthe station itself. 'They had quite few tents of their own also, which they had managed to bring back with them. Many of these men Jwere without their weapons and just about disabled with foot-sores but no doubt the few days' rest they got here has put them on their feet again.
Although defeated they were not. disorganized and did not greatly harass the people. Yesterday they struck camp and' moved west to Liuho, two stations away, also on. the Lung-Hai railway. This move was probably necessitated by the threat to their rear if the Shantung, troops came down to H'saochow which the Chinese papers state is their intention to do. So the tide of war would seem to be rolling westward now and one would think that Chengchow, where the Lung-Hal Railway meets the "Peking Hankow battle will have to be fought atlt9 the Kaifeng hospitals, it is now centre of a very lively storm in the 7 to be the can Hsinyangchow Weute Generals Tang Te-pel Chia Wan-hsin, The second line, consisting of the two brigades of Sen Chien-yeh and Lin Vu-ching, has hardly passed Hsiaokan in Hopeh. The remaining two, under Kuch-kuang, are in support.
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