Noe.
ALTHOUGH some days have passed since we were told, on what appeared to be unquestionable authority, that war between Marshal Chang Tso-lin and General Feng Vu-hsiang was question of hours only, no fighting appears yet to have occurred, We were told that negotiations had broken down, that General Feng was asking impossible cony|cessions in Chibli, that he had virtually occupied' Peking. But still apparently no encounter in the field. A battle there has been at Tsingkiangpu and the Fengtien troops have evacuated Hsuchowfu. But since menace of war between Fen Vu-hsiang and Chang Tso-lin arose, the operations in North Kiangsu have become subordinate to the main field of interest and need not prove a barrier to peace, as there are many precedents to. show. So, before the. breach becomes irreparable, we wold venture to make ole last appeal to 'Fachuns to: cotisider tha -tnparatiéled danger of the'
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