It is an open secret that Chiang' Kai-shek, through Yen Hsi-shan and other northerners, is trying to build up a powerful northern military following whereby they may not only check Feng Vu-hsiang and the ments in the Wu-Han ing every effort to promote di alty in his Yangtze following.
Feng Vu-hsiang's concentration near the Peking-Hankow vay is prompting heavy wit drawal of Shansi units front po tions nearer home. This is construc ed by foreigners—like Yen shan's resignation—as an omen of According to Mukden telegrams to the Chinese press, Gen. Chang Teo-hsiang, former Tupan of Kirin, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Forces for the Preservation of Order in the Three Eastern Provinces, succeeding Marshal Chang Tso-lin. Gen. Chang Tso-hsiang is in no way related to the deceased leader as their names would suggest but he has served under the former Fengtien warlord for many years, PeKiNc, July 5:—The appointment of Dr. P, W. Kuo, former President of Nanking University, a8 Director of the Peking Office of the Ministry. of Foreign Affairs has been confirmed by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Y. L. Tong. Dr. Kuo will serve as liaison me between the foreign Legations and the Ministry, establishing his office at the Waichiaopu building—Reuter.
Onvens have been issued by the Minister of Communications to the managers of the Shanghai-Nanking, Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo, Tientain-Pukow, Lung-Hai and Peking-Hankow Railways to arrange thei time-tudes in such a manner that passengers leaving one train may at once transfer to a train of an-done by the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Lines the and the other three lines have bert notified accordingly
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