Plenty Visible Though Friends Say Chang Will Not Fight On the: other hand Chinese who fare close to the Marshal declare that he has no intention to fight at present. They seem to. regard the present anti-Fengtien movement jas due to Bolshevist inspiration jand as intended to discredit the present administration and wreck the Customs: Conforence thereby From QuR Own. CORRESPONDENT
Mukden, Oct. 28
When the disturbing news from the south: became public in Muk-Jden last week there was little or no apparent excitement, and in-continuing the Chinese irritation against foreign domination of their customs. Be this as it may, the" {fact remains that yesterday afternoon the Fengtien crack regiment, cheki-clad and-with equipment mod-Ielied on British lings, entrained for the south under the command of [the Young General, Of course this Jmoverpent may be interpreted as defensive one and not an offensive Money Market Upset mumpers and are to be seen adjacent to the Chinese City Station standing axle to axle ready for em~ ployment.
Yesterdsy a foreigner mentioned that he had seen the Marshal the jBrevions dey "and asked him if he prepared: for war, to. which Chang Teq-lin smilingly relied that.
wes. always prepared fon, war. [This answer. is." no.exaggenat tion, As was to be expected the money market was thrown into a flutter'
the imminence -of war, and the local currency: suffered a barometric drop from 217 last Saturday to 200 on Tuesilay.. Then the Marshal took' things into his hand, called! the ex: change bankers and brokers toge: ther and told' them that exchange! [was not to go below 240, To this they agreed,' and. the tate of exchange is; quoted -at that figare, but of jedurse nd.'business is being done! wigs, Sue that state for, tian, copeetaiy a tay deobptad "dey
225 as a standard rate of exchange, fed without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.