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Show SKY BATTLES FOUGHT NEAR PEKING WALL Powers Take Steps to Protect Pro-tect Legations in Chinese Capital LONDON, M.iv 1 (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) An attempt to assas-I Isinate General Wu-Pel-Fu. leader of the Central Chinese forces, was made last Saturday, says a Peking dispatch I to the Evening News today, which said the report had not been confirmed. The general was lightly wounded and bis assailant captured and executed. ' the dispatch said. i ii :;t i FIGHTING PEKING. May L. (By tho Associated Asso-ciated Press ! The battle for the possession pos-session of Peking was still continuing Itodav with the udvantage apparently going to the forces of General Wu-Pel-FU, driving toward the capltol 1 from the south. Martial law prevails in the city. I -.., II,., nl..r rf Tim ! fighting. !2 miles BOUthWOSt of the i itv were that Gcn-Tal Wu was forcing the soldiers of General Cha ng-Tso-Lin from Changslntien, and the lido of bat-I bat-I tie was rolling eastward toward the southern walls of Peking. I Fighting around Peking has dlmin-I dlmin-I Ished as a result of the retirement of : Chang-Tso-Lln's army from the immediate im-mediate vicinity. Chinese inhabitants said today that the wounded and dead 1 found outside the walls of the city In-Idlcated In-Idlcated the fiercest fighting that has I taken place In rece nt history. POWERS GET BUSY LONDON. May 1 Great Britain. France and Holland are expected to j follow the example of the United tatea In sending marines to reinforce its legation guard in Peking, according accord-ing to the Dally Telegraph's diplomatic I correspondent, He adds that, should the situation become dangerous furth- er contingents might be drawn from Hongkong. French Indo-Chlna and the i Dutch East In. I |