May 17.
Four bridges 15 miles east of Imienpo were destroyed by fire yes~ terday morning after they had been [soaked with kerosene by anti-Mi Jehukwo troops, who apparently intended to impede the movements of the forces opposing them. The ftreops. then attacked, a breakdown train, but were forced to retreat by ithe train guard, who poured " hail Jof machine-gun fire into their midst.
Assn result of the track being pulled up a few miles east of Heng-Rachotze, communication between that. station and Pogranitehnaya, which had only just been restored, has been again interrupted.
A fierce battle for the possession Jor Sungpu, near Harbin, raged tothe sound of gun-fire being ible here, After receiv-the anti-Man-Jehukuo troops ing the city launched a heavy attack, but were the defenders.— yy bandit-soldiers, but the passen-were escaped unhurt except one Russian, who was injured. A. British engineer named Smith was seriously injured when an_ attack wax made on the Hu-hai Rai
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