Finale to Thirteen Years Struggle: New Officials and Revival of Trade Peking, June 11. mandate Issued last night appoints General Liu Tseng-hou ting Commissioner of the armies in Szechuan, The post is vincipally an honorary one and ll_not interfere with his duties as Tupan of the Szechuan-Shensi Frontier. General Liu reports that he has established his headquarters at Chungking and asks for an official seal.
As the result of Marshal Hsiao Yao-nan's request to withdraw the Hupeh troops from Szechuan the arrangement has apparently been reached for the 3rd Mixed Brigade at Wanhsien, the Sth Brigade at Yungchuan and Lungeheng to be withdrawn, while the Sth Division der the command of General Lu Chin-shan will remain fern Szechuan to protect trafic along the river, and the 18th Frigade will stay at Chungchow.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Peking, June 13.
With the appointment by the
mi Central Government of the regul 3 years' ty struggle in that province is looked upon in official circles as brought to a conclusion. It is learned that, the issue of the Presidential mandates making the appointments, much progress has been made in the arrangement of administrative affairs, It appears that General Liu Tsun-hou, Yang Sen, Liu Hsiang and Tang Shi-how are tired of political struggles and are willing to concentrate their efforts upon administrative affairs.
There are still small parties of troops under Lu Ching-hsuan in the several districts to the south of /Szechuan, but it is expected that within the next fortnight or so they will be suppressed. The situation both at Ichang and Chungking is said to be settling down rapidly. There are, however, evidences of small groups of bandits who make their appearance off and on and passenger traffic is interfered with fat times. But since the placing into service "of the Upper Yangtze patrolling squadron, both Chinese jand foreign merchantmen are travelling unmolested. The fact that the godowns in Hankow are full of goods for shipment to Upper Yang-{tze ports shows Szechuan and is anxious to return to his own province. Negotiations are _projeeeding with Liu Shieh-shin with a is returning without conflict—Reuter's Pacific Service.
_Wu Pei-fu wants to use the Russian remitted portion of the Boxer' Indemnity to build a railway from Suiyuan to Singkiang vid Mongolia. He even expects to work it profitably. enough to devote a part of its re-1e8 to education, comments the "Sinwanpao." His plan seems good at the first glance (says the paper). But when one considers the deser land through which most of this rai way would travel, can one seriously expect that it could be worked pro-frably?. Tt might be valuable perhaps for military purposes, but never commercial.
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