Honan. Thought Likely to Caige Split Between Chang Tso-lin and Feng Vu-hsiang From EL OWN Conestoxvent, Peking, March 19, War rumblings have persisted Peking ever since the coup ott of October 23 lat year, and' laterly they: have become' louder than ae tal, The reason lies in the Feated problems of Honan, where Liu Chess hon snd Kan orton are renewing nid Paotingfu, ever whose poste their strength against Hu Ching-yi;
fom 'Pension' and "the Retna 'Army have been disputing sins Chingclin was given' the Governors ship of Chihit province Nobody seems to have any cles idea of wat is happening in fee na, Dethapsbecae nobody Darticulerly interested (the rel in itself. "The peevaling in ite effect on the two wars lords of north China, Chang Ts tin and' Feng. Yertslange Sun Yueh and Feng Vu-hsiang When Sun Yueh left Peking for Chengchow, ostensibly as mediator in the Honan struggle, he promised to hand over control of Paotingfu to the governor. For four months he had-defied the Government's forts to get him to assume first the Civil Governorship of Honan and then the post of bandit suppressor for Honan, Shensi and Kansu, busying himself in the creation of an army large enough to hold his satrapy. It was only when it was evident that Chang Tso-lin might take a hand in the settlement of the dispute by upholding his subordinate's claims, and presumably fon the advice of Feng Vu-hsiang, that Sun Yueh decided to. accept] the Government's offer to act as the mediator in Honan, He promised to take his army with him, but, according to reports, he left certain forces distributed along the Chinli zone of the Peking-Hankow and it is also said that Feng Vu-hsiang has been sending small detachments of Kuominchun 360 troops from Kalgan to fill the places of those: troops which accompanied Sun Yueh to Chengchow for the Purpose of mediation.
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