Peking, July 22.
Tension here has been relieved owing to authentic reports that Hsu Shu-tseng's (Little Hsu's) troops (of the Frontier Defence Force) have hurriedly evacuated Yangtsung and Lafa on the Peking-Tientsin Railway; 10,000 of them have passed through Fengtai bound for Kalgan.
In all probability the train ser-normal, vice to Tientsin will shortly be
Hsu Shu-tseng last night visited the Wagon Lits Hotel here and left almost immediately with, it is alleged, two Japanese officers. His family left the hotel this morning.
Little Hsu's present whereabouts are unknown. He is commonly re-jotted to be recuperating in the louse of "a member of a certain nation.""
Ma Hano ar Tenouow.
We learn privately that General Ma Liang, the Mohammedan commander at Tsinanfu and a supporter of Tuan Chi-jui, occupied Tehchow, about. miles north of Tsinanfu on the railway, and the seat of an important arseno] on July 20.
Peking, July 23.
Tsao Kun and Wu Pei-fu will not accept mediation and the mediators have all returned to Peking, except Fu Liang-tso who is reported to be detained at Tientsin under arrest. The Chibli party is understood to be unwilling to cease fighting until the influence of the Anhui faction has been wholly eradicated.
Tsao Kun's Army on the Eastern front reinforced by Fengtien troops wish to recover their lost ground, fighting has been resumed.
The troops of Tsao Kun on the east, refuse to obey the Mandate forbidding the war and they continue to advance, The command ders of Tuan's army report the attitude of the enemy and ask for orders as to how to meet the situation.
President Hsu has asked Li Yuan-hung to intervene and prevent the struggle between Chihli and Anhui, but Li has declined to do so.
The Government has telegraphed Wang Chan-yuan, that he should prevent Tan Yen'kai's troops from entering Honan vid Hupeh as this would permit the southern influence to penetrate the Centre of the North and prejudice the peace Prospect in the future.
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