Taiyuan, May 7, Pressed by Shansi troops on the eastern bank, large numbers of Com= finnnists in the western part of the province have succeeded, under the Cover of night, during the past few days, in crossing the Yellow River {nto north Shensi. A military communique states that only about 2,000 Reds now remain. in Shansi, and Government troops are busily combing the various districts for them, As soon as the bulk of the Reds are cleaned up in Shansi, it is stated, large detachments of Shansi troops sent to the other side of the wer, in Shensi, to help in rounding up the bandits—Central News, Peiping, May 9.
Arrangements were practically completed in Tientsin last night whereby South Manchuria Railway will Fant inane and och net ance to the Peiping-Mukden Railway for the construction of the projected /Teangchow-Shihchiachwang—railway, according to rellable Chinese sources.
were mode during negotiations These arrangements, ie, stated tween Mr. Ishimoto Ola, of the South Manchuria Railway, and Mfr. Chen [Chueh-sheng, managing director of the Peiping-Mukden line.
'The projected railway, which wit! ink' the Tientsin-Pukow line "at Teangchow with the Peiping-Hankow and Chengtingtu-Taiyuan lines at! Shihchiachwang, will be about 220 miles long, traversing rich agricultural and in Southern Hopel and tapping the mineral resources of Shansl—
Reuter.
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