War news which filtered through! to Shanghai yesterday again linaited operations to uncertain troop.move-
Hostilities were reported to have broken out near Ihsing yesterday afternoon but they could not be confirmed. The officials of both sides denied the rumour.
While-the Fengtien and. Chekiang Jauthorities persist in their denials of an impending war and the: railway authorities "know nothing" of movements along the Shang! Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, it is) certain thatthe: Chiklang army under'Gen; Sun Chuan-tang, the Tupan, has commandeered a considerable Quantity of rolling stock of the railway line, as well as most of the steam launches and other small craft plying dong the Grand Canal. Two launches belonging to. the move forward towards and Soochow and, if investigation proves to be correct, they will not} carry on their attack along the railway, but along the Grand Canal, They will concentrate on Soochow with a view to cutting off Shanghai from the main armies in Nanking] and the north, The Shanghai transportation companies have received i ions from Hangchow to suspend transporting goods to the latter city and ther places in Chekiang, and, we understand, the Soochow launch companies "have received similar {netructions not to send any mere small craft along the Canal. 'The China Merchants' Steam Navigation Ca, have temporarily suspended despatching vessels.along the Canal, bat no information has been received to the effect that any of the company's fleet have -been commandeered, "Autumn Manceuvres""
Gi Sung Shih-ching, the Shang-agent of Gen. Sun Chuan-fang, was seen at his office yesterday in conversation with Brig-Gen, Chang Te-ying, Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung Police. In the course of an interview, he said that there was absolutely no troth whatever in the rumours. They had been spread because the autumn mapauvres of the Chekiang army would be held shortly and it was for this reason that Gen, San was moving his men, There was no intention whatever of waging war.
The Commissioner of Police (Gen. Chang Tz-ying) said that he had sent out a mumber of intelligence officers but they had failed to dis. cover any military movements of importance on the part of either side, in and Tapan Sun were old friends, and Gen. Sun and Tupan Yang Vu-ting, of Kiangsu, were class-mates. There were no reasons for a fight between them, Anyhow, his duties now were confined to police affairs and it was his intention, whether there was war] or not, to maintain peace for the welfare of the local -people. He wished to see merchants carry on their trade uninterrupted.
(Chi Hsieh-yuan Returned from One of Marshal Wu Peisfu's old officers deprecated all the statements that his chief was preparing for} another war just now, either here or in. Haman. His military strength was not sufficient for him to wage] war against Pengtien, Tt was freely rumoured yesterday that Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, former Twchon -of Kiangsu, had returned to Shanghai-or was going to return in the near future, but we were rioable to secure any confirma tion of the reports, though a Chinese in close touch with the former Chihli teader said that Marshal Chi] would remain in Japan for the present, When seen by: this gentleman recently, Chi is said to "have [made m statement to the effect that there was plenty of time for him to work for his country as he was still quite young, No Troop Trains on S-H-N-Rly.
Mr. S. D. Wong, assistant trafic manager of the Shanghai-Hangehow-Ningpo "Railway, told a "North-China Daily News" representative that so far as he was able to ascertain there were no military movements along the railway. He knew nothing of military movements, The railway. administration, how. fever, had decided to suspend the running of two. goods tains to-morrow and.on Friday but this fact was in no way connected wi military movements. The girders of Bridges 67,:60 and 61 had to be repaired. Immediately atter the last express train is run tomorrow night the line will.be closed for two evenings to goods trains. The day service, however, willie centd, express yesterday morning wad two: hours ate, dt thie was.due machinery, =ot to. military inter ference.
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