The Archive · 1925

FENG YN-HSIANG AND SOVIET

Large Consignments of Arms and Ammunition Brought to Kalgan Through Urga Peking Apr. 30, Reporis have recently been cure rent that Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang tas been buying large quantities of ammunition from Soviet Russia ud transporting them to Kalgan, through Urea, Tt has been stated certain quarters that Marshal Feng has obtained as many as 260 motor lorries for the transport of this ammunition, These reports appear to be coi firmed by the statement of a foreigner who left Urga on April 19 to the effect that all Europeans wishing to leave then were detained there and refased passport. vise owing to the fact that some 4,600 Poods of arms and ammunition in the town were being taken to Ko fan for delivery there. He reports that this was the first of five similar consignments and that the cther four are on their way from Siberia now.—Reuter's Pacific Service.

**The above report is not confined to Peking. It is quoted with Jexeat persisterey and circumstantial detail well-informed Chinese circles in Shangai,—Ed,

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