The United Association of District Assemblies pf Kiangsu despatched fa telegram from Shanghai to the Kiangsu Residents' Association at Peking on October 7, asking it to approach che Government and the Peiyang lenders in Peking with request for an early cessation of hostilities, The war between Kiangsu Jand Chekiang has been raging for lover a month, during which, as state received from the Thsing, Kun tsang, Kiating,—Paosha 18 Tsingpu, Chinshan and Tenghsien, the whole countryside in Jehese districts has been devastated by military operations, and many people have been rendered homeless and destitute. The so-called Kiang ssu-Chekiang conflict has become misnomer, since all the Chekiang forees are now assembled in Kiangsu territory to fight the Kiangan Army, while the Fukien troops have also faded Kiangsu territory to fight ithe Chekiang Army, with the result that scareely any spo!
Circuit is left undespoiled. As China is called a Minkuo (Republic) and not a Chunkuo (military autocracy), people's wishes cannot be disregard:
with immanity, sociation has always shown soli tude for the welfare of the home province, and as it is in close touch [with the Powers-That-Be, it should find no difficulty in exerting i fnfluanee to bring the war to as speedy a conclusion as possible,
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