The Archive · 1928

From One Force to Another

All doubts about the real occupation of the disbanded soldiers were set at rest by the simple statement that they ure disbanded from one corps, in one town, and reinlisted in an: other corps in a town near by. fitting example of this state of Chinese military affairs ix the fact that the 180 disbanded soldiers of the Ist Army Corps, who arrived here from Nanking.on August 1, loft on the evening of the 2nd for Hangchow, where they will be rein-listed into the Peace Preservation Corps. appearances this means now army ts being formed in China, and while soldiers are dis-handed from the regular military service, they are put into this Peace Preservation Corps, an ingenious lethed of keeping the ball rolling.

One hundred more disbanded soldiers of the Ixt Army Corps, Ist vision, were sent from Nanking to Hanyehow of Aug. TU is. not known at present what will be done with these men. Will the Peace Preservation Corps open its arms to them?

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