Peking, Sept. 16, Marshal Wu Pel-fu has wired to General Hsiao Yao-nan, Tuchun of the latter immediate-itary funds to the amount of $1,000,000, as, Marshal Wu says, some $20,000,000 is required to continue fighting agains: the Fengtien and Chekiang troops.—Eastern News Agency.
The Chihli Warlord was quite emphatic in making these dec! tions and confidently asserted that he expected the war to be over in two months.
Peking, Sept. 20.
In an interview this morning given to British, American, French, Japanese and' Chinese ' foreign correspondents, Marshal Wu Pei-tu Tengthily reviewed the circumstances leading to the present situation and Justifying the Government's resorting to punitive expeditions against Chekiang and Manchuria, Asked whether it was intended to follow Marshal Chang Tso-lin if the latter retreated owing to the collapse of Chekiang, Marshal Wu Pei-fu said that, if Chang Tso-lin would not] resign, he must be made to do so. He did not consider it too late this year to send an expedition over the Manchurian railway. The Chili troops were warmly clad, and he hoped to clean up the situation in Manchuria within two months.
He definitely intended to carry on the campaign until Chang once and for all was eliminated as ruler of Manchuria, and the Central Government again constituted as the authority.
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