Disclaimer of Any Desire to Fight: Responsibility Put on Chekiang Leader From Roowey Grusenr, Loyang, Sept. 6, T interviewed Marshal Wu Pei-fw teudny on the situation between ngs and Chekiang.
Miturthal War Pete said he had done everything possible to mediate jin order to prevent war, but that the situation was now out of his hands, while responsibility for a possible Wwar rested with Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang, who had received arms (arms' from Mukden or the refugee armies from Fukien?) and X! was preparing to use the Anfu troops of Wang Yung-chuan and General Chang Chih-ping against Kiangsu. "Marshal Wu said that Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan of Nanking did not want war and will not attack Chekiang, so, if anyone start-oda fight, it would be Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang.
Marshal Wa said that Kiangsi and. Pukien had no war with Chekiang but were fighting the Antu leaders. 'Therefore if Marshal Lu Yung: hsiang disarmed these troops for the Government there would be no ground for a fight, 'The impression I gathered from the interview is that Wang Shih-cohen's present, efforts to mediate do not alter the' situation and that!
Loyang expects Chekiang to attack, shortly.
Veking and Protection of Foreign Interests.
Peking, Sept. 6.
In response to an Anglo-American Franco-Japanese communication requesting the protection of foreign lives and property in the war zone and Shanghai, and stating that the Huangpu from the approaches of Woosung to Shanghai constituted a harbour where there should not be any fighting, the Waichiaopy meroly replied that the Central Government had received assurance from the Kiangsu military authorities, that they would do their best for the protection of foreign lives and property.
Another Note on this subject will probably be sent to the Waichiaopu,—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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