Another story has it hat they were originally. consigned to Kale kan and held' up. in. Tientsin. by. Chang's orders, and were released nly after prolonged" negotiations with Mukden, Yet a thied story that they were neither 'a presen recent consignment. from abroad, but simply derelict guns that had been left lying between Langfang "and Peking' since" the last trouble with Wu Pel-fa, Thi seems to be the most planation, and their transform tion into an olive branch seems to merely an example of the naivete of certain propagandisti China. Some partisan of Feng, of some advocate of peace, apparently thought the removal of the guns 0 Kalgan would be_" good opportune aman to be curried favour with, of elevating Feng's, preat
or of farthering understanding. be: tween the two chieftains, and_ 10 evolved the story of the gift. How could relations be strained between the two war lords when Chang wat actually making a present. of weapons of warfare to. his rival? The propagandist was. playing on safe groand because he knew that stich apiece of information' could very well be contradicted from Mukden. But he needs tome other medicine to sweeten his imagination; and he should also learn to be exact in his figure
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