Marshal Chang's Antagonism Towards Chi Hsieh-yuan:
Troops Assembling Tientsin, Dec. 20.
Tt is learnt from a reliable Chin-jose source that in the event of Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, Inspector-General of Kiangsu, Anhui, and Kiangsi, staying in' Nanking and disregarding the orders of the Tuan Ghi-jui Government, Marshal Chang Tso-lin contemplates despatching southward in a few days a large force of Fengtien troops under the command of Gen, Chang Chung-chang in company with Gen, Lit Investigations made by the Eastern News Agency, are to the effect that the reports that a large number of Fengtien troops have ale ready been transported as far down, Jas Hsuchow, Kiangsu, are untrac, The fact is that they have not yet crossed the borders of Shantung. The report, however, that the General Headquarters of the Fong-tien troops in Mukden have ree ordered the Bureau of the Peking~ Mukden Railway to prepare 200 uncovered wagons for the purpose of transporting Fengtien expeditionary forces to the South by the /Tientsin-Pakow Line has been com= firmed.—Eastern News Agency,
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