Peking, Mar. 13.
Whatever is happening in the sirugile between Hu Ching-yi and Yuskun—and_ nobody seems to Know anything definite—it is a fact hat both contestants have militarizthe province of Honan out of 1 recognition. A foreigner who just returned to Peking from n extended visit to Chengchow:
Cstimates that with the incursion 6
Liu Chen-hua 'Tuchun of Shensi, there are more than a quarter of 4 million soldiers battening on the Ilion people of the province. That gives a proportion of one to in, but it is likely that it will soon lis' even more advantageous to the udiers, for they are being teer vod right and left by both camps, Ching-yi issues advertisements from time to time for officers and cadets to control the horde that is xrowing up around him, but me stead of leading to a development of discipline, such recruiting adds nly to the number of, irresponsi-Wes,
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