of Hangchow 'A presidential mandate has been received in Shanghai abolishing the position of Military Governor of Shanghai and Sungkiang and ordering the former title of Commissioner of Defence to be used instead. General Lu Yung-hsiang, Tuchun of Chekiang, who has also been holding this position for the past year, is relieved of the responsibility, and General Ho Feng-lin, one of General Lu's aides, who has been acting, has been appointed to the new post. At the same time the Commander at Lunghua is to take hig orders from Nanking, that is Tuchun Li Shun, instead of Hangchow, Gen, Lu.
General Lu and General Ho have sent a joint telegram to the vation provinces denianding that the form. er position be retained. General Ho has sent a telegram to Peking in which he tenders his resignation, Whether or not this will be accepted remains to be seen.
General Ho has issued an open statement that he will not hand aver the seal until he receives official orders from Peking. He states that he will not recognize any change at the. present time, this Statement being made with the approval of General Lu Yung-hsiang. Tt is said that conditions make any change impossible at the present. time. The good order and peace of the neighbourhood must, in any event, be preserved.
Cxexianc TucHun REsIGNED, General Lu Yung-hsiang, Tuchun of Chekiang, has tendered his re-Signation to\ the Peking Government. He gives as his reason the fact that he was not consulted iby the Government before the issuing of the mandate abolishing the post of Military Governor of Shanghai and Sungkiang (which he held) and reverting to the former title of Commissioner of Defence with General Ho Feng-lin (his aide) as commissioner. The resignation has not yet been accepted, neither has General Ho's resignation as Commissioner of Defence. Both of these generals have been requested to remain at their posts.
The local military divisional commanders have sent strong protests to Peking opposing any change.
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