Saturday, Oct. 24.
It ig reliably reported that Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan left yesterday for Naxking. No statement was issued at the time of departure, but it is wider stood that by agree ment with General Chen Tiao-yuen and General Bei Bao-shan, Marshal Chi will resume his old position. It is also believed that General Sun Chuen-fang concurs in this arrangement.
It was impossible to confirm the arrangement ae Marshal Chi left suddenly. Early yesterday morning, it was not expected that the invitation to come to Nanking would arrive until to-day. In the afternoon, he had left for his former capital.
The Peking report of the day before yesterday that Heuchowfu hed fallen to Chekiang appears quite untrue. On the contrary, Fengtien seem to be strengthening their position ther Chinese telegrams yesterday which appeared teliable said that Marshal, Wu Pei-fu had left Hankow for Nanking by gunboat to establish a new government there.
Another rumour which was current yesterday, but which we only quote as such for purposes of inter~ est—it is quite unlikely—was that they will pursue their way northwards by the Tientsin-Pukou and Peking-Hankow Knes, Should the: Fengtien troops fall back outside the Great Wall, no attempt will be made to stop them or to wage war against them. If warfare can be avoided, it must, so that the people will not have to' suffer.
Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, the Chief Gen, Fang Ping-jen, Tupan of Executive, had fied' from Po-kiangsi, has despatched five mixed! ing. The reason for his hasty brigades to "the front" to assist the departure it is said, was because Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang had suddenly changed his attitude towards the present Peking Government,
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