Probsbly the most interesting dovelopment in the local war situat is the statement in the Chinese press that Marshal Chang Tesolin has appointed Chang Chung-chang Tupan of Shantung to be Inspector-General of Chekiang, Kiangsu and Amhug The announcement came, it is alleged, in answer to a telegram from Mr. Hsia Chao, Civil Governor of Chbkiang, asking what was to be Chang Tso-lin's future policy. The telegram is said also to have confirmed Hsia Chao's appointment as Tuchun of Chekiang.
There were further rumours that Marshal Chang Tso-lin had promoted Gen. Chen Tiao-yuan, Tupan of Anhui, to the Tupanate of Kiangsu, and Gen. Huang Pu, Commissioner of Defence for Southern Anhui, to be become Tupan of Anhui, Still more startling news is to hand from Chinese sources to the effect that 300 Whampoa cadets are in civilian clothes in Shanghai to take command of an independent army consisting of 10,000 men to be raised locally. That there are numbers of these agents within the environs of Shanghai is corroborate fed by Col. Yen Chun-yang's orders to his subordinates to round them
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