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Show Q O V V V V Smersfde i HOT FIGHT ! Fleeing Army Leaves 7000 Dead and Dying to Victors GRAB MUCH BOOTY Complicated Chinese Situa tion Explained; What Victory Means PEKING, May 5 I By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) General Wu Pet-Fu was In control of Peking at noon today. , and General Chang Tso-Lln. whose f.,rr-s he routed yesterday In a fierce, battle smith of the capital, was reported re-ported fleeing to Mukden. Chang's, udden collapse has ended the hostlli- j I ties. I With r.O.Ooo troops. General S u en-, circled hang-Tso-Lln's forces outside i Peking ami utter lu hours of relent-1 lc :s cannonading, machine nn fire and Infantry charges routed his op-ponents, op-ponents, making himself the master of the capital. WU's fprces camped last night un-j un-j molested outside the city gates, while' i Chang's soldiers were scattered, hav-I hav-I lng retired with the main body down ! ihe railroad toward Tien Tsln, or dls- ! naraiwl in unorcanled mobs over the hills ( sl IHI.S M'MKKOrS 1 The routed army left behind artil-I artil-I lery, munitions, horses and loaded I camels, and Its wounded nnd deud. The total casualties in Thursday 'a' l fighting are believed to have reached I from 5000 to 7000 dead and wounded. ; ! As the fighting was brought near I Peking's walls, warning was sent to ! the citv authorities that soldiers were I about to enter the capital The Kates were immediately closed, only foreign-1 . is who bad been shut out being per-, mlted to enter. Railroad eommunclatlon In all dl-, r ciloris h is I.. o suspended All fighting in the Vicinity of Peking Pe-king has caused this morning The section Inside the walls occupied occu-pied by the Amerb ana became greatly, excited during the night by an attempt of the soldiers outside to ram the; fata and gain entrance. The guard on top of the wall dispersed tne at-l tacking troop.- witn maeninc sum, No foreigners were injured. Interviewed by a Chinese newspaper newspa-per at his headquarters In a niodest farm bOUSC e the outskirts of Chun-llangchen, Chun-llangchen, Chang-Tso-Ldn said: I intended to unite China. The people peo-ple have suffered so much in the past from warfare that i hoped Wu-Pel-Pu and Tsao Run would agree to pe li e Both have disappointed me If Wu-Pel-Fu and Tsao Run had co-operated, the northern forces could quickly have conquered the south My purpose was to abolish the old pari lament and let the people elect new representatives who would convene con-vene Immediately and form a stable government for all China" A message from Tien Tsln reports the arrlal of stronp relnforceements for General Chang Tso-Lln at Pelt-sang, Pelt-sang, six miles northwest of the foreign for-eign concessions at Tien Tsln. on the Hun river SIT1 I ION l XPLAINKD Noti The struggle between Gen-erals Gen-erals Chang-TSb-jCln and yVu-Pel-Fu I (Continued cn i'nrrc Two.) GENERAL WU CAPTURES PEKING, SCATTERING ENEMY (Continued from Rage One) which has reached Its climax in the present campaign, was foreshadowed In Associated Press dispatches in September) 1 9 2 1 . when it was outlined out-lined as a battle between militarism in China under the leadership of Chang, the most powerful military governor of the republic, and llb-erallsm, llb-erallsm, with Wu a its standard hearer. hear-er. In personality the men arc exact opposltes. while their present relative positions form an outstanding paradox in Chinese political history, Chang, regarded as the war lord and advocate of a military hegemony, sprang from the people, li uneducated and gained 1 forees of character and personal j bravery. WU curpe from the upper clashes distinguished himself Jn his younger I days as a student and when only 21 years of age won the Chinese degree equivalent t hai helor of art? In a competitive literary examination. He received his military education the, Kai I'lns military academ near Tien T-in where he graduated with honors. hon-ors. Chanr; fousht under the Mikado's banner In the Russo-Japanese war as a leader of a Chinese guerill force At the clos- Of the campaign, he passed into the Chinese government service and became fo stronpr as a military mil-itary leader that his machine puns at one time overawed government ln-vestlffators ln-vestlffators sent to Inquire into s number num-ber of charKes apalnst hlrn n military governor of Kenjctlen. The investigation investiga-tion was dropped Wu was prominent in the drive against the Anfn club, or coalition of militarists two years ago, when that organization was broken up and Its lenders Imprisoned. In September, 1921. his operations cast the first shadows of the struggle Whlph now has developed between himself 1 nil Chang, At thai time he led hi" troops ifalnsi 1 h Hunan rebels, reb-els, drove them out of Hupei Into their own tcrrltor rind tlun turned on the ( 'zcr iiiianc.. southern lorces netiniT Independently In-dependently Of Sun Yat-Sen. president of the republic of South Chin.- At Ichang, General Wu outflanked the Scechuanez on both wings and completely com-pletely defeated them in what American Amer-ican observers described a.s the finest fin-est piece of strategy ever employed by a modern Chine.se general." Followers of political events in China taSltly admitted that Wu's victory vic-tory at Ichang prevented the further disintegration of the republic and placed an obstacle In Chang Tso-1-.ln's path toward a military hegemony In northern China 00 |