Marshal Chang Optimistic: Two Chihli Chiefs Already Killed In answer toa request by the Chinese Red Cross Society for protection to the branch societies in Mancharia, Marshal Chang Tso-lin, in a telegram of October 5 courteously declined the Society's offer of assistance, on the ground that his Army has perfected its own arrangements by setting up a chain of field hospitals along all fronts (says the Chinese press).
In a telegram of October 6, Marshal Chang Tso-lin informs Marsh Lu Yung-hsiang that Marshal Wang Huai-ching, Commander of Chihli's Second Army, has died at the Peking Union "Hospital of wounds sustained at Chapeng; and that Gen, Peng Shou-hsin, Commander of Chibli's First Army, was blown to pieces at the vicinity of the Railway Hotel at Shanhaikuan by a bomb thrown by a Fengtien aeroplane, and his coffin has been transported to Poking.
Marshal Chang continues by a4- suring Marshal Lu that "although we have not been fighting for long, yet of the three chief commanders''
bel forces, two have already" by us, which fact proves nis on the side of the Republic may
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