Show I TOWARD PEKIN I I FIRING BY flY MANCHURIAN FORCES 1 IS REPORTED IN MESSAGE FROM MUKDEN Fight It Is Within One Hundred d Miles Mile of Chinese e Capital and Grower Closer Dall Dally Daily Shanghai Two Tw mess messages g rom Irons rom M Mukden given out by Sec Secretary Loh Lohof Lohof of defense headquarters here reported that firing has begun at in Chihli Chihil province at atthe atthe atthe the Manchurian border and i in i district in the heart of Chihli ChIhil miles northwest of n and about miles no northeast of Peking The second nie message sage reported the capture of near I 11 These ese messages if confirmed will indicate that Chang Lin Tao the I Manchurian fi field fied d' d marshal marshal- is moving I Kit Ids troops on Peking from tw two directiOns U tiona in his his' I effort to overthrew w the I government gO there 1 Meanwhile the civil war J abo about t I IS S Shanghai brough sharp fighting here I I According to a e by Loh the tie Chekian for fortes forces es allied with Chang IsoLin in the opposition to I the Pe Pc- Peking king government advanced ed from Kl thirty miles northwest it of Shanghai l toward Taits Tails ang ng r g. g They als also were al said saki to h have ve scored advances ces es near The ni m major Jor operations however were were we west t of of Tal Tat lake w where ere the artillery were turned on after the commander command er had withheld fire fite in itt in r response po se to toa a petition of the townspeople and discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered that t this tiis ls was a ruSe ruse nice to enable en enable en- en n. n able the army to bril bring brg g up reinforcements J t tIt J 0 It wa was admitted that that troops suffered unimportant losses when junks on Tal Tat lake transporting them were subjected to a heavy fire A report from a source said laId a flotilla of these junks had been sunk by artillery An witness eye-witness attached to the army reported that it had been attacking near east of Tai Ta lake with twenty miles s southwest of Shanghai and the Shanghai railway as ob ob- Advances were claimed It also was said that the advance advance ad ad- vance against had been halt halt- ed Another witness returning here from fifteen miles west of Shanghai reported that he saw heavy with many casualties The line Une between and Antin was holding firmly he said There was war ren renewed wed firing in the Liu Liu- ho sector to the northwest near the town of mentioned in Lows Low's |