Shanghai a Small Affa Compared Northern War Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan was sited at Chenja on Sunday by Me. Wen Shik-tsen, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, who upon his return made the following statement:
'Marshal Chi regards the question' of the unification of China as paramount. The settlement of the Kiangsu-Chkiang problem encourages chim to believe that the time has come when the whole of China may be unified: discuss with Marshal Sim Chuan fang, but the serious problem is to throw ry assistance to Marshal Wu Peicfu, so that the campaign in the northeast and the entire problem of satisfactory feels, therefore, that his next most Important task is to return to Nanking as soon as possible to prepare is forees for service under. the command of Marshal Wu Pei-fu."
"The present Shanghai problem is in reality a small issue as compared with the campaign in the Northeast and the entire question of unification. Marshal Chi regards the Shanghai question as: almost settled and in the hands of his lieutenants, in whom he has complete confidence and who, he believes, will be able to effect' a satisfactory ion.
Mr. Wen said that Marshal Chi expressed his complete satisfaction with the neutrality and courteous conduct of the Shanghai Volunteers ud the foreign troops which attitude of foreigners in Shanghai, he was pleased to know that they really sympathized with the need for an end to disunion and He still has some matters to ivil war in China,
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