mander-in-Chief of China's armed forces, has instructed the troops under General Han Fu-chu, Governor of Shantung, not to retreat without instructions, As a result, the Chinese troops who evacuated from Yenchow are stated to have returned and to have clashed city. with the Japanese forces entering the
Chinese reinforcements moving north along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway from Hsuchowfu have already passed Lincheng, notorious for the hold-up of the Blue Express in 1923 by bandits under Sun Mei-yao who kidnapped and held more than twenty foreigners for ransom for about a month, Lincheng is south of Yenchow, According to Chinese reports, gun fire was audible to-day at Tsouhsien, fourteen miles south of Yenchow.
Orders have been given for the Chinese police and Public Safety Corps who evacuated Tsingtao to form themselves into small bands for guerilla operations along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.—Reuter.
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