If Units up to Standard More Thas 200,000 Men on All Fronts and in Reserve If all of Wu Pel-tu's units in the were up to standard strength it would be easy to credit him with more than 200,000 men on the ious fronts, with 20,000 held in ig and Tientsin, and with 20,000 reinforcemen: s en route from Kiangsu,. One is safe, at any rate, in saying that he is now moving at Toast 150,000 armed men into the fighting lines. A list of the units will perhaps help to make clear the tude of the effort which the Chihli leaders ure making to give Chang Tso-lin his quietus, With Shanhaikuan as a base, the Great Wall and the line outside the wall is held by the 16th Division, under Peng Shou-hsin, by half of Tsao Ying's 26th Division, north of Shanhaikuan and inside the wall, and by the 12th and 18th Mixed Brigades.
With Chinwangtao as a base, the line which has been resisting ' the determined Fengtien attacks from Chiumen and has held Chang Tso-Un's men at Shihmenchai is made up of the 2nd Shensi Division, the 6th Brigade (Wu's own rd Division) under Chang Hyi-chen who has more than once saved Chinwangtao; and the 24th Division in Feserve. the 14th Division (jast in position); Taitouying, 23 miles north of Changli, is the base for the move. ments, northward and eastward, of the 23rd Division, Tachangtze, on the head waters of the Shaho, 50 miles north of Yuan-pinghu, is base for the 14th Mixed Brigade's flanking movement upon Chienchany, and points beyond Iehol is the permanent base for the operations to the northeast, designed to encircle Chaoyang from the north, of the 1th Division, the '7th, 8th and 25th Mixed Brigades, and of a cavalry force of 9,000 operating as a single un up of the Tst and and feavaley: regiments and the Saiyan Cavalry Brigade, the Inst being commanded by Mu Fashsiang's son, 'Ma Hung-ku'
Wang Huai-ch based upon Pingehuan and have Chaoyang. as their objective, Hu Ching-yi is operating from Pingchuan also with what is known {the 1st Shensi Temporary Division, 'a unit of 30,000 men now roughly divided into 3 Mixed Brigades, imately be shaped into three Divisions.
The 9th and 20th Divisions have Chienchang as their base.
The Honan ist, 2nd and 4th Mixed Brigades are numbered among those in the field, but their posi the writer has been unable to learn.
Troops from Marshal Chi's Army 'The—Shantung 20th Mixed Brigade, said to be one of the best units in' the Chinese army, is on ite way to the Shanhaikuan front; and the Shantung Ist Mixed Brigade, commanded by Pan Hung-chun, and the Honan Srd Mixed Brigade, commanded by Ma Chanin, both of which did rather well at Huangtu, are the first to be detached from Marshal Chi's army service against Chang Tso-tin.
The 15th and 16th Mixed Brigades are held at Peking as reserves, while the 2nd and 26th Shensi Mixed fades are held at Tientsin and one brigade of Tsao Ying's 26th Division is at' Hsiaochay. Ten thousand more men will be detached. from the Kiangsu army and sent north but the units are not. yet designed nor the destinations Gecided upon. The Yangtze Valley Tuchuns, with their armies, are rearfeuards and Chang Fuclai is said to be organizing an army in Honan las a last reserve force in the event The only active organization which this catalogue is the unfortunate T-chun, the ill-equipped remnant of the Tate. Chiang Kuei-t's turbined horde, which made a hopeless effort te \stem the Fengtien tide at Chaoyang
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