General Pi Shu-chen, naval and military commander in the Kiao-tung (Shantung) peninsula, apparently has strengthened his con trol over the eastern end of the province by suppression of revolts at Chefoo, Chuchou, Kaomi
pears he has el rivals and it how. epwho sought to gain the upper hand and expel him from Tsingtao, happy hunting ground of rival militarists Tupan Chang Chung-chang sends a large force of soldiers here, or appears on the scene himself, General Pi should be able to hold this position in Eastern Shantung for some time to come, General Pi is reported to have completely disarmed the rebellious soldiers at Chefoo who were formerly part of General Chang Hwaiing's command. This leader, with Gonoral Ying Teh-san, former martial Law commander here, who was sent to Kaomi with a regiment of gendarmes to help guard the Kiao-Tei Railway, sought to engineer a revolt, hoping to effect a union with onan forces operating in Shan tung. The act was ill-timed, how. ever. General Pi and his forces probably in the neighbourhood of 10,000, some of whom are here and others being scattered along vho Kino-Tsi Railway and the Chefoo-Weihsien Motor Highway, still remain loyal to Fengtien.
General Pi gained con! fame for himself last winter by his bold capture of the rebellious Commander Lu Ssu-wen, in the Tssochow district of southwest Shantung. The mysterious behaviour of Lu, who ousted a divisional commander and assumed the command himself "in the name of the People's Army" was long a source of extreme embarrassment, as well as danger to the then Shantung administration, hended by Tupan Chen Shih-chi. The attending incidents were known as the "Tsaochow Affair" and received nation-wide attention. It was] General Pi who proceeded to Lu's camp. and affected a capture of the: rebel at the point of levelled revolvers, Lu''s soldiers were unable to give aid to their commander General Pi declared that if any attempt at rescue was made he would first Kill their leader, 'Commander Lu has been detained at Tsinan for a long time, He is supposed to have been acting ' on the" part of Marshal Feng Yuhsiang, who was then reported as trying' to extend his sphere control to include Shantung,
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