The Archive · 1925

Preparing for the Great Fight

The reorganization of Marshall Chang's troops has been completed, and they are now fully prepared"to fight a final decisive battle with General Kuo Sung-ling's troops.

"As @ result of to-day's military ference, posts of commanders of the Fengtien troops have bee decided as follows:—Marshal Chang] Tso-lin to. be Commander-in-Chief; Yang Yucting Chief of the General Staff; General Houeh-liang Commander of the Ist Fengtien Army, the centre, Gen-cal Chang Tso: hsiang Commander of the 2nd Fengtien Army, the right wing, General Wu Chun-sheng Commander of the 3rd Fengtien Army the left wing.

With a decisive battle imminent, Marshal Chang 's doing everything

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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