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Show DEFEATED CHINESE TROOPS MAKE STAND TIEN TSIN. May 10 (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Chung Tso-Lln. the defeated Manchutian general, is re-1 ported to have fled to Dalren observers ob-servers say his troops have established establish-ed three lines of trenches this side, of Huanehow. oh the Mukden railway, south of the great wall, but will fight only If General Wu Hel-Fu's forces j press them too hard. General Wu's soldiers are In pursuit. pur-suit. Twenty-eight troop trains, each carrying 500 men, passed through this city to tho east, of which three aro reported to have already arrived at Peltang. on the coast 30 mlleB east of ' I here, and four at Tanghu at tho mouth of the Pel river. Chang's men have cut the railway from Taku to Mukden, near Dutal, 28 miles north of Tb n Tsln, to hinder the pursuit. Three cruisers are reported off WsnghUangtun. near Shanhalkuan, bombarding trains passing on the Mukden railway. |