Foreign reports describing the fall of Chinwangtao state that the ok on the Chinese positions began early on Saturday morning, when planes dropped hundreds of bombs in an area one to three miles north-west of Chinwangtao, Later, Banchukuo troops attacked with the assistance of Japanese artillery, Tapanese planes spotted along various points.
At 2 o'clock on Saturday after-Boon the Chinese garrison evacuating Chinwangtao, leaving the town feontrol of the Chinese police. The SSepancse commander of the Japan-tse military camp at Chinwangtao then put in Japanese guards at the railway. station, the town' meanwhile remaining quiet.
Responsible Japanese at Chinwangtao' declare that. the troops Fghting the Chinese are merely regulars, but, this is_dismissed view of the fact. that nese tr00p3 in Haiyang and" that ossess.artillery or air force, while nits of Japanese. fozces appear to be entirely' responsible for the Chinese. withdrawal,—Reater.
Railway Cut jen tsin, Apr. 17. 'A section of the Peking-Mukden ihe-and Liu I from the British-owned mines was suspended. Secking the maine tenance of free traffic on the railway according to the Boxer protocol, the British have started negoti Itions with Chinese and Japanese—United Pres
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