Mexico City, May 24.
The Ministry of National Defence announces today that over 1,200 rebels, partisans of Gen. S. Cedillo, have surrendered to Federal Troops.
—Havas. division, totalling 20,000 men, crossed the Yellow River in the vicinity of Wuyang, occupied Tsaochowfu, and crossed the Lunghai Railway and reached a point north-west of Chihsien in an attempt to encircle Kaifeng.
Later, he added, the Japanese troops turned northward, and recrossed the Lu: way between hai Kaifeng and Lai n an attempt io reach the' Yellow River in order to receive supplies from, and form a junction with. the Japanese forces at Kuankou, on the north bank of the Yellow River, At dawn on May 23 the Chinese
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