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NORTHERN CAMPAIGN NIGHT BATTLE AT
STAND BEING MADE AT
TAISHAN...
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SEA.
DARKENED SHIPS' VIGIL.
TORPEDO ATTACK.
Shanghai, Apr. 23. - The Shantung forces are report- Jed to be concentrating at Taishan mountain and on the outskirts of Tainanfu to attempt to check the stars; a few clouds, and a strong A dark night, no moon, a few advance of the Nationalists before cold wind into which we steam withdrawing across the Yellow head on. Altogether a night more River-Reuter..
reminiscent of the North Sea of ten or so years ago, than of the Mediterranean.
40,000 Stragglers.
Peking, Apr. 23.
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We are leading a line of four San Chuan-fang is reported to battleships, but not a glimmer of be at Ningyang, north of Yen-ight can be seen in Warspite or chowfu, with 10,000 men. Changam shape of the next nutorn can in the ships astern. Just the dark Chung-chang is semi-oficially re-
bo made out otherwise all is ported to be at Chichshow which
blackness, is to the north of Talan.
game,
into
· Warspite is nt her old A foreign observer auw roughly and she seems to know it. As she 40,000 Shantung troops at Taianoes steadily on she brushes aside on Saturday who had straggled the short seas that are running, back over roads and fields. At-occasionally breaking one tempts were then being made
spray which flies across her decks, reorganise them at Talan. Most Up to the bridge dim forms are of them had not been in contact seen with glasses, each steadily with the enemy.
examining his appointed sector of the horizon.
to
Wu Chun-sheng with several brigades of fresh Manchurian troops is expected in Tehehow this week to superintend the organisa- tion of a defence line there.
Lights are reported quietly and in the curious phraseology of the Navy, which directa Instant atten- tion to the desired point. Cursori- ly these are examined and ignored,
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searchlights and star shell flash
But not for long. Suddenly THE BREMEN AT GREENLY into the sky. An enemy cruiser and destroyer are made out under Fan Fu left Peking for Shantung for we know that our enemy car-do us any harm, so we do nothing the tights-they are too far off to to-day on a special mission.ries no lights, and that they can and pass darkly on, Router.
The nothing but the ordinary trafic We are not, however, to be fat pilots, with mechanics, spares and
off. A few minutes later a de fuel for the Transatlantic plane the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI stroyer, who has evidently broken "Bremen" have left Murray Bay through the
unseen, for Greenly Island.-Reuter, sighted on the port how coming down between the lines of the Fleet so close as to force both. divisions to use searchlights and
London, Apr. 23, open fire. She stands out as a has departed from Lympne in 'a Wing Commander E. R. Manning grey streak, a splendid target and thirty-five horsepower monoplane must be blown out of the water, on a solo flight to Australia, follow Two minutes with all guns upon ing Captain Hinkler's routes.- her is enough. A cryptic remark Renter."
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Felching Taken.
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route upon which we are operating Away Shanghal, Apr. 23. to "port, beyond the other line of battleships is a brilliantly lit liner, A Nanking message states that making for Gibraltar, stearing the military council announce fast and gradually passing the that the first and second armies Fleet. Little does she think that are now conducting a joint offen- few miles north of her is a sive on Tainanfu. They claim squadron of great battleships, that the right wing of the accond dark and grim, steaming steadily army has 'captured
Felching into the night, hoping to avoid, and is closing in on Sinchwang but ready to meet, Its enemy the
Reuter,
destroyer.
from our Captain, "That one's Wing Commander Edye Rolles- Out ahead of us is a scouting dead. Switch off," puts us again ton Alanning, D.S.O., is a native of Sydney, NS.W., the son of the Aereon of destroyers, and we trust in total darkness. A Lloyd's message from Alexan-that they will give ue timely warn- dria reports that there was
But she has fulfilled her mission, late Mr. William Alexander Man- lug of the enemy. This they do, for by forcing us to use search: ning, a solicitor of that city. Head-Up Capital Bullders 60.000.000,- outbreak of fire in the Empress for presently, a report comes in lights she has exposed the post-served during the war as second servs Fuad of Scotland (Canadian Pacific from mysterious sources. Viceroy, tion of the battle feet to her con-France and Belgium, and was lieutenant in the 15th Hussars in Steamships, 12d., 25,160 tang who is ten miles ahead, reports, norts, lurking in the darkness transferred to the flying corps in gross) at the end of last month."Enemy ship 000 1 mile."
This at somewhere ahead, ready to pounce.1916 and later saw service in Iraq It was extinguished by the ship's once gives warning that some. The cruiser, as soon na she be- staff, but the wireless-room and thing in to be expected on thecomes aware that heavy ships are
and Kurdistan.) the operator's cabin were destroy-starboard bow, and the look-out about, covers herself with a smoke ed. Some of the deckwork was is redoubled in that quarter. For screen and disappears. All is now slightly damaged.
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