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Show SUPPOSED RUSE . :BK CHANG FAILS TOSURPRISEWU Request by Manchurian Leader for Armistica Now Believed Merely Excuse to Gather His . Forces ATTACK RESULTS IN COMPLETE FAILURE General Wu's Men Well En-trenched En-trenched With Machine Guns and Artillery; Sends Crack . Troops to Front ; T1EN-TBIN, Juno It ny A. P.) If Chant Tao-Lln'a aull for an armlatlca bat week w ruaa, aa la believed her, to give hie defeated and retreating retreat-ing Manchurian army a chance to re-onranlao re-onranlao for a successful offensive. It tnlesed Ita purpose. Tho commander of Wu Pal-Ku a Chlhll army, remembering remember-ing Chsng's early training aa a bandit leader, waa qulta prepared for him. When Chang's troops attacked Hun-day Hun-day morning they found a firm Chlhll Una atrongly aupportrd by machine iruna and artillery. After an all day battle Nunday tho Manahurlana are again headed homeward. I. Change troops attacked tho Chlhll Hunt f.ank. resting on tha Llaotung (ulf eoaat near Chlnwangtao, but were repulsed after aevere fighting. A report re-port la at night aald tho Manchurlane wera withdrawing northward toward tihanhalkwan with Wu's army preeelna cloaa behind them. Two rarloads of wounded wera being sent to Tien -Tain. Aa tha reault of tha new outbreak haa ordered hla third regiment, tha flnwar of hla army, to leave Ita headquarters at Tanghu for tha front. Great Cavern Is Formed in Queer Manner Section of Earth's Surface Sinks Out of Sight, Leaving Great Hole and Pool of Rising and Falling Water 1 WIER. Kan.. June II The Rafferty farm, .even mllea aoutheaat of thla little Cherokee county town, haa been i the acene of Inquisitive hundreda. at-, at-, tracted there by a phenomenon of na-j na-j ture a cavern aeventy feet deep and ' ninety feet avroaa. which wae aald to have eiiddenly appeared a few daya, agn. The cracked condition of the earth nearby portenda another cave In. obeervera aay. At the bottom of the pit there la a ! email pool of water, which lieea and fulla at Intervale, and peraona who have experimented declare that a alnker let Into thla pool by meana of twine failed to reach bottom. ! All the earth which went down haa completely dlaapprared. aa well aa a tree about forty feet In height, which It la aald stood on the ground. Local naturajlata expreaa the belief that the ceveln waa raueed by an underground I rtver or lake. |