Forty-two soldiers, escorting three aeroplanes, arrived here from Hangehow~on Wednesday morning. wid left for Nanking the sxme day. Field guns belonging to the 3rd Division of the Chekiang Army, escorted by soldiers, also. arrived from Hangchow and departed for Nenking.
Troops: War the Only Hope of Provisioning Them Peking, Oct. 29.
Foreigners returning from Honan firm previous reports of serious internal" conditions there. Vast numbers of troops are in the province, according to some estimates numbering 300,000 men. They a unpaid, badly fed and equipped, Aisciplined and most of them still {is summer clothing, no winter clothing being available. The people are suffering severely from the requiaitions of heavy taxation and looting by troots and bandi Drastic measures are employed te control the populace, and numbers of human heads are hanging up on the railway stations at Kaifeng' and Chengchow.
The Tupan, General Yueh Wel-chun, is desirous of peace, but he may be forced by circumstances Join in the civil war and attack the neighbouring provinces in order' to get rid of the superfluous troops.
Some of his subordinate generals desire to join Marshal Wa Pet while others. oppose 2 coup d'etat ig possible at fallowed by, fghti
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