The Archive · 1927

Ultimatum to Yen Hsi-shan

Peking, Aug. 23.

According to the vernacular papers, Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and Chang Chung-chang have sent what almost amounts to an. ultima- C! tum to General Yen Hsi-shan_demanding that the Kuomintang lags Be, hauled down in his territory, that Kuomintang organizations Shansi and the Suiyuan area be abolished, that Shansi troops withdrawn from Southern Chil and that Shansi should acknowledge the authority of the Peking Government.

The Shansi delegate left. Peking! today. A new delegate may be sent here shortly—Reuter, 'A. MILLION silver dollars bearing likeness of Marshal Chang Tso-have been coined by the Mukden mint for'cireulation in Peking and Rlentsin shortly:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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