London, Aug. 21.
It is reported from Peiping that the Aghting in northern Chiva has spread to a new sec-or. According to Japanese accounts, the Chinese troops have advanced "60 miles along the railway from Peiping to. Nankow and are shelling the Japanese positions at Liangshlang. Simultaneously "other Chinese forces are advancing through north Charhar to Manchuria without encountering resistance. The strength of the Chinese forces despatched by Nanking to northern China is estimated by. the Japanese at 400,000.—Trans Ocean, throughout the night. ther," however. com: pelled Japanese officials to call off exercises until to-day, "There is no doubt, according to the same sources, that a screen of plainelothesmen have been thrown around Tientsin and are operating in the immediate vicinity." Singly, or in small groups, these men continuously Iharrassed "Japanese outposts during the night, resulting in intermittent outbursts of rifle fire and the aces sional boom of light guns, The number of plain-clothesman rot even be approximately estimated. Nor is it known whether they operating independently or as an advance guard for the regular forces.
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