Two Cashiered Generals and their Vengeance Peking, May 29.
A foreign telegram from Harbin: says that a movement is on foot: against General Chang Tso-li This evidently refers to the acti' ties of Generals Meng En-yuan and! Kao Hsih-ping, the Kirin Tuchun} and the Changchun Commandant, respectively, whom General Chang, dismissed in 1920.
It appears that General Kao Hsih-ping visited General Wu Pei-fu at Loyang prior to the Fengtien invasion and gave General Wu valuable information regarding Manchuria in general and the Chinese Eastern Railway in particular. General Kao subsequently went to Vladivostok, from whence he sent General Liu Yung-chi to Pogranitchnay, at which place the latter was joined by a number of old fo!- lowers who unfurled a banner inscribed "The Eastern Fengtien and Kirin force for the subjugation of traitors."
On the morning of May 2 an attack waq launched against the; Fengtien 19th Brigade, who were guarding the C. E. R. between Pogranitchnaya and Mulingshan. After severe fighting, General Liu's troops disarmed the Fengtien forces. Pogranitchnaya remains in their hands.
A later despatch says that the spirit of the revolt against General Chang Tso-lin is. spreading through the railway zone. The insurgents intend to take Harbin, where they have many friends.
General Liu Yung-chi is reported to have sent a communication to the Consuls at Harbin announcing that unday instructions from the President he has taken command of Pogranitchnaya until the arrival of General Kao Hsih-ping, adding that order will be maintained and foreign nationals not molested.
Another communication has been presented to the Japanese military authorities at Pogranitchnaya signed with the names of Generals Kao Hsih-ping and Liu Yung-chi saying that the latter, as second in com-{4 mand of the subjugation force'* under orders of the Central Government and General Wu Pei-fu has established his base ab Pogranitchnaya. As General Chang Tso-lin defies the orders of the Central Government he will be suppressed, the communication declares and adds that the signatories will be responsible for the lives and property of Japanese. It also requests the Japanese military authorities to observe strict neutrality. It is understood in this connexion that the Japanese troops, having been stationed im tne Cc. R. zone merely for the protection of. communications. will not interfere in the present quarrel unless the railway is seriously menaced.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.