This is the real"reason for the threat from Mukden that Chang Tao. in intonds'to.visit Peking soon. Ching-lin is intensely djasatixfied with the turn of events, which rob him of control over his own province, and he is said to have at last enlisted the dissatisfaction of Chang Tso-lin, Reports by travellers between Tientsin and Peking have it that General Li is displaying an unusual military activity, bat he will doubt-ess wait on instructions from Muk-iden, for he would be helpless without' the ce-operation of his chief. He is also said to have secured a working arrangement with Chang Chung-chang, when the latter call-Jed on him in Tientsin on the way from Mukden to Hsuchowfu, for tervention in the Honan struggle against Ching-yi. Chang tion astride the Lung-hai railway of Ru Ching-yi New All jon is very com-Aaseverations of friendship continue to pour out of Kalgan and Mukden, but it is certain that as many new alliances were born in Mukden on the occasion of the Mukden warlord's birthday celebrations as new friendships formed. Chin-Jose observers say that the pos delicate that peace is hang!
a thread. The evidence even to the outsider appears to bear out, statement. The Kuominchun are still at Paotingfu, they Jare being replenished by infiltrations from the main body of Feng's army, Chang Chung-chang appears ai Hsuchowfu. just at the time Liu Chen-hua starts his new offensive, Sun Yoieh's mediation is turning] out to be a very, one-sided affair, id Li Ching-lin is impressing sol-\diers in all the villages in the vieing ity of Tientsin. In these cireumstanees one rather fancies Wang T-tang will have a difiealt-job in pacifying Chang Tso-lin's ire.
Neither Chang Tso-lin nor Feng vithsiang is said to be anxious this stage to precipitate a con-ict, but they are both pulli strings which if pulled hard enough) will eventually bring about hostilities. And their subordinates are responsible for actions which have that end in view.
Tt is reported that Marshal Hsiao Yao-nan has decided not to interfere ith Marshal Wu unless he returns} fo Hupeh.
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