Wu Pei-fu's Supposed Scheme From Our Own Correspondent Kaifeng, Ho., June 22.
Your correspondent has just returned from a journey to the south of the province, along the Kin-Han railway. Having kept his ears and eyes open for news items, he now passes on to your readers what he saw and heard.
First then as to the political and military situation. The trains are filled with soldiers, both up and down, but apparently not more than in ordinary times. Every station had a plentiful sprinkling of grey uniforms, which may mean that General Wu Pei-fu is still in Honan, and may be here for some time yet.
On my homeward journey 1 got in a coupe with a young man, whose card I have at present, and who claims that he is in the personal following of General Wu Kuang. hsin: though in civilian clothing and seated in second class sleeper coupe he needed no ticket his card in the hands of a soldier in the cor-rider seemed sufficient for the ticket man. This young man pointed out several cars on the down train filled with a motley collection of coun. try specimens, which he laconically characterized as recruits en roule for Hunan.
From him J learned that General Wu Kuanghsin is to start for Hunan to-morrow himself. This may be all gossip, and it may he really facts and significant: I pass them on as I received them.
Waar or tin Goverxo The up trains are filled, but not with uniformed men. There is no evidence that the defeated and crestfallen Northerners from Hunan are going north as an army, nor as the remnants of an army The report is that they go home divested of all insignia at Hankow.
In Kaifeng the present story with respect to General Wu Pei-fu is that he has addressed the Students Union to the effect that he will join forces with them to run, the civil governor out of the province. Governor. Wang Yin-chuan is, as your readers will remember, the Anfu nominee. supported by Wu Kuang-hsin and opposed by Wu Pei-fu, at the time that the present military governor was to have been removed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.