All' indications point to an ex-! pedition to Haichow, the chief port of Kiangsu on the coast some 200 miles south of here. Haichow, until recently the headquarters of General Bei Bao-shan, now military commander at Nanking, is supposed to have been left without. an adequate garrison and the Fengtien authorities foresee no difficulty in occupying the place. Thence, according to close observers here, the Fengtien soldiers will move ward along the roadbed of the incomplete eastern section of the Lunghai Railway connecting Haichow with Hsuchowfu, the junction point with the Tsinpa Railway and 4 point of great strategic importance for the Fengtien army. The' object, so far as can be determined here, is to bolster up the Fengtien left wing and clear that section of Kiangsu of whatever hostile troops' may be there. It is believed that other expeditions will follow the initial one.
Up to to-night the ships are still in the inner bay and although they have steam up and are ready to sail at a moment's notice, it is evident that orders to leave are still being withheld. The local authorities are in close communication with General Chang Chang-chang, the lend of the Fengtien relief army now at Heuchow.
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