Show TROOPS MOVING PEKIN FIRING BY manchurian MANC miRIAN FORCE IS REPORTED IN MESSAGE PROM FROM MUKDEN f fight Is within one hundred miles mile of chinese capital and grower closer dally daily shanghai two messages from mukden given out by secretary loh of Che kiang defense headquarters here reported that firing has begun at Shan in chihli province at tho the manchurian border and in dehol district in the heart of chihli miles northwest of Shan and about miles northeast of peking the second message reported the capture of Tsa oyang near aebel jebel these messages if confirmed will indicate that chang tso lin the manchurian field marshal is moving movine his troops on peking from two directions in his effort to overthrow the government there meanwhile the civil war about shanghai brough sharp fighting here according to a by loh the chekian forces allied with chang tso lin in the opposition to the peking government advanced from biating Kia ting thirty miles northwest of shanghai toward Tai tsang they also were said to have scored advances near the major operations however were west of tai lake where the Che kiang artillery were turned on yiming after the Che kiang commander had withheld fire in response to a petition of the townspeople and discovered that this was a ruse to enable the army to bring up reinforcements it was admitted that Che kiang troops suffered unimportant losses when junks on tai lake transporting them were subjected to a heavy fire A report from a source said a flotilla of these junks had been sunk by artillery an eyewitness eye witness attached to the kangsu army reported that it had been attacking near Tsing pu east of tai lake with Sun kiang klang twenty milis miles southwest of shanghai and the shanghai changchow railway as objectives jec tives advances were claimed it also was said that the Che kiang advance against tilling had been halt zd ed another witness returning here from tu fifteen miles west of ghang shanghai lal reported that he saw heavy farcing with many casualties the hellang Che kiang line between and antin was holding firmly he said there was renewed firing in the liu ifo ho sector to the northwest near the town of biating mentioned in lows |