Peking, July lin, the Governor of is gone, at 1 o'clock this morning, in the direction of Mukden, after a serious altercation Y¥)with Tuan Chi-jui, and after ordering the Fengtien Divisions to Shanhaikuan.
Tuan insisted to-day at a palace conference that the President should degrade Wu Pei-fu, but the President flatly refused to sign the mandate. Tuan is taking the leadership and_ threatens open hostilities if the President fails to issue the mandate to-night. He is concentrating aeroplanes and troops at Navyuan: 18 tons of ammunition were distributed yesterday.
Tuan promises to take Paotingfu in five days, but the loyalty of his troops is doubtful.
The 15th Division offers to advance against Wu Pei-fu, presumably to join him.
Local betting is in favour of Pei-fu and the relative strengths of troops immediately available are Tuan Chi-jui, 40,000: Wu Pei-t 20,000 and Chang Tso-lin 20,000.
'A small Japanese Joan was secured to-day.
Ting Shih-yuan and Tseng Yuan-pei urge Tuan to fight, but the others strenuously oppose it.
Wu Pei-fu is stopping northbound trains on the Peking-Hankow Railway and is taking the cars, Hsu Shu-tseng is inactive, and is not mentioned in Tuan's demand.
Paotingfu to be Bombed by Aeroplane Peking, July 8.
General Chang Tso-lin is appa rently awaiting developments in the vicinity of Tientsin.
It is very significant that Tsao Julin and Lu Chung-yn visited the President this morning and requested the appointment of Marshal Tuan Chi-jui to the Cabinet. The President refused.
At a meeting of Anfu military officers this morning Marshal Tuan Chi-jui appointed General Tuan Chi-kwei Commander-in-Chief of the punitive expedition against General Wu Pei-fu and Marshal Tuan's other opponents, with General Chin Yun-peng as second in command, a post which Chin Yun-peng will naturally decline. Marshal Tuan Chi-jui has since demanded the arrest of General Wu Pei-fu and General Tsao Kun and also the latter's brother, General Teao Yin, who has bottled up the Second Frontier Defence Division at Tsinanfu by occupying Tehchow Arsenal, and also that these generals shall be handed over to him for punishment. It is reported that Marshal Tuan Chi-jui intends to surround the Presidency and force (the President to give an official complexion to the so-called punitive expedition, if his demands are not otherwise conceded.
Meanwhile the Anfu Club have obtained large funds from the Ministry of Communications, with which they have sweetened the tem-
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