There are fairly well-grounded reports that the excellent artillery. control of Fengtien at Shanhaikuan was due to their guns being aimed by Japanese gunners, who were paid $30 a day for the servi there are 400 Japanese mercenaries in Chang Tso-lin's troops, it is reported that these men were addi-Yional. Ordinary mercenary soldiers usually do not have the ability and training—that modern expert arti The inference is left to people's imagination. instinct for safety approach to Tientsin yesterday and to-day. His special train was preceded by two pilot rains, running in the two preceding sections.
The: Tientsin railway station approaches are elaborately decorated with welcome arches, a mass of coloured flowers by day and brill electric lights by night. They were erected to welcome Marshal Chang Tso-lin, whose entry under these Jeonditions will effectively wipe out the stain of his inglorious retreat of 1922. © tempora, O mores, 0 [Chang Tso-tint!
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