There seems to be, without ques tion, another big one to believe that it will break very soon. On Wednesday Marshal Lu's leaders were in conference all day long at Nanziang—Gen, Chuang Tze-ping waited at his "quarters for the arrival of Gen. Yang Hua-chao, who returned to the front again from Shanghs where he had come early yesterday morning, and for Gen, Zen Laozeh, who had been conferring with Gen. Ho Feng-lin.
Still another reason for believing: that a big action is impending, is the arrival at the front of all sorts of paraphernalia for surmounting the difficulties of the country, both for men and guns when in movement. The nature of these is a military secret, but they are as elaborate as they are ingenious. Headquarters are now in active communication with all portions of the front line and no fewer than nine telephone or telegraphic wires centre at Gen. Yang's yamen, keeping him in touch with all fronts from Huangtu to Liuho.
would appear that all the necessary communications had been' established for on Wednesday some rolls of. wire arrived in Shanghai from the front.
Several hundreds of soldi
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