Peking, Aug. 9.
The mandate, promulgating Chin Yun-peng's Cabinet, is expected on Wednesday. The doubtful portfolics will be settled before that date. This speedy settlement of the main question is principally due tu General Chang Tso-lin, who is hurrying up matters.
The disbandment of troops is proceeding with real success but the Government has decided to retain the services of a detachment of the Sth Division, which has rendered excellent service on the Siberian border since China's declaration of with Germany. It will probably be used to guard the Chinese Eastern Railway at Heiho.—Reuter.
"Among other things, the General was represented as saying that he was convinced of the truth of the reports that Japanese yolunteers had participated in the struggle, and that he reason to believe that 30 of these had been killed or wounded, all being dressed as Chinese soldiers, "Charges of this kind have so persistently been brought against Japan that it would not have been considered worth while to publish any more denials, if this fresh charge were not connected with the name of a person in the high and responsible position of a General.
"While doubting the accuracy of the report of the alleged inter view the Foreign Office states once and for all that all rumours and allegations of Japanese interference of any kind or form in the ecent trouble in China are entirely groundless and are resented by Japan as a reflexion on her good faith."
Note.—The passage in Mr, Rodney Gilbert's interview with General Wu Pei-fu referred to reads:—
"He (General Wu Pei-fu) is now convinced that reports of Japanese volunteers having participated in the struggle were true and has reason to believe that 30 of then: were killed or wounded, all being dressed as Chinese soldiers. Two, who were recognized as Japanese, were buried by his men."—Reuter.
Note by the Editor of the "North-China Daily News."—When we have the admission of Mr.
bata, the Japanese Minister to Peking, himself, that the Legation has given asylum to proscribed leaders of the Anfu party, on whose heads a reward has been set, most people will have little difficulty in understanding General Wu Pei-fu's belief that less exalted personages of Japanese origin had participate ed as volunteers on the Anfu side.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.