Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1927-05-20 | Page 8 | Northern Chinese Start Offensive

Northern Chinese Start Offensive I I London Rumors that the northern Chinese forces are beginning an active offensive are contained In a Hongkong dispatch to the Kxchango Telegraph company. Five of their warships are reported to have left Tsingtao in a southerly direction, whilo 12.000 northerners north-erners are said to have landed nt Tsung Ming island, at tho mouth of the Yangtzo river. General Yang Sen, (he dispatch said, arrived at Ichang, on the Yangtzo In Huprh province, May 8. There was the usual loot'cg. but foreign property wan not touched. General Yang Son is reported to have taken over Shasl, on tho Yangtzo, about seventy miles east of Irhanjr. and to be Joining Marshal Wu Pel-Fii's army at the Han river for nn advance on Hankow stronghold of tho radical nationalists. - j