Difficulties Faced by Southerners in Bringing up Supplies Peking, June 27,"
Apparently there have been no military movements for several days. "Che Northern forces claim that they still hold Hanchwang, on the borders of Kiangsu and Shantung. troops finding the utmost It is understood that the Southern
difficulty in bringing up their supplies as the Fengtien forces, in ad-Jdition to removing the rolling-stook, fare tearing up the permanent-way on the Tientsin-Pukow line and have also destroyed the pumping-stations with the result that all locomotives have to be watered by hand-labour, which takes hours, after which they can only run 80 miles. This. is hampering the Southerners more than anything else as they are reported to have no spare parts for repair Locally feeling is now veering towards the belief that the Southern forses are not likely to reach Peking for months, even if there is little resistance offered by the Northern treens, while the Fengtien command ders assert that Generalissimo Chang Tso-lin will remain in Peking for the next two years.—Reuter.
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