Disarmament in Places Only Peking, Sept. 1.
General Chang Tso-lin, interview. ed yesterday afternoon by foreign correspondents, asserted that his troops were at the disposal of the Government and that Tuchuns acting independently of the Government were wrong in so doing, as all troops belonged to the Goverament. He approved the centralization of military power under the Government.
Vith regard to the proposed People's Convention, General Chang Tso-lin said that only one such Convention had ever been held, namely in the United States, and he feared "trouble from such an Assembly in China. He declared that nothing could be said concerning a new Parliament until the unification of the country had been established.
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