Mukden Claims Him: Wu Pei-fe Speaks of Him as an Ally:
Whose "Dear Brother?"
Peking, Oct. 21.
Mukden circles in Peking state that General Feng Vu-hsiang has wired to Marshal Chang Teo-lin calling him "dear brother" and saying that he hopes for peace. He now at Paotouchen; when a rangements there are completed will go on to the west.
The wire also declares, it is that Marshal Chang may use hia (Feng's) tropes which are in Peking if he so desires, General Yang Vu-ting arrived in Tientsin early this morning and left for Mukden at noon, Oct, 22.
Ingoing and outgoing messages are all strictly censored.
'A message from Hankow states that Marshal Wu Pei-fu, in the course of, an interview, declared that he was opposed to the Communists and Bolsheviks as the destroyers of their country.
He would not be surprised Marshal' Feng Vu-hsiang acted in conjunction with himself and Ieunched an attack on Bukden.
Marshal Wu declared very emphatically that unless the cour-try was put in proper order, the Powers. would be unwise to hold -|the Tariff Conference. It would be for them if they never started Ya: Pacific Service.'
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