Marshal Lu's Old Troops Refusing to Leave Kiangwan for North Kiangsu The troops of the 10th Division, formerly under General Ho Feng-lin and now at Kiangwan, refused to leave for "Hsuchowfu on Monday.
spite of a previous agreement to enroll in Marshal Chi's army. They, are reported to have declared themselves partisans of Feng Vu-hsiang.
According to an authentic report, Lu Hsiao-chao, son of Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang, returned from Japan on Sanday and immediately" went into conference with various Antu leaders and followers of his father.
These conferences were held in a regarded as a change of attitude fon the part of foreigners and is being exploited in an effort to prevent the defeated Chekiang troops; [from keeping their agreements with Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan and Sun Chuan-fang. A part of these soldiers are still at Sungkiang, although it was originally understood that they were to be sent to chow and more distant points Chekiang.
Hupeh General Still Her It was impossible to ascertain yesterday what Marshal Chi Hsichyuan intends to do with regard this change in the local situation, He is reported to have intimated during the week-end that he would return to Nanking after General Chang Yuen-ming, the Hupeh leader "at Lunghua, and these troops at Kinngwan had left house in Route Courbet and else-General Chang Yuen-ming stated where in the French Concession. definitely yesterday that he would. "Small" Lu, as he is called by eave for the north on the 29th, Chinese, was amply supplied with according to Kiangsu reports. fands and timed his arrival with Tt_was expected that the Anfu Feng Vu-hsiung's coup d'état in Party would make some stand ili Peking.
Shanghai to ce-ordinate their ac-The result of these conferences: tivities with those of Chang Tso was that the 10th Division went fin and Tuan Chi-jul, Tt was not back on their original agreement expected, however, that they would declared that they would con-interfere with the peaceful liquidatinue to remain at Kiangwan, They tion of the problem of the defeated also declared their adherence to the soldiers in Shanghai, This question present "Government" in Peking, has been hanging fire since the day namely, that of Feng Vu-hsier Marshal Lu fled to Japan and way The Anfu Party is making much believed to have been settled satis-[capital of the fact that "Little" Hsu factorily to all sides. The now is at "Hongkong and that he may complication requires further, per= soon return to Shanghai.
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