The Archive · 1916

GOVERNMENT'S MILITARY MEASURES

According. to the "Peking Gaze: te," in addition to the 3rd and 8th Divisions of the northern army which the Government has despatched to the south, it is understood that another army will be organized by drafting soldiers from the troops of aix of the provinces, namely, Kuangtung, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kiangsu, Anhui, and Fengtien. The soldiers will be the pick of the fighting units in these provinces and sre to be under the supreme command of one general, ce-operating with the northern forces already in the field.

'The Kuangtung Authorities are taking strict measures to prevent' communication between Yunnan and other provinces. Letters dened for Yunnan from other provinces via Kuantung have been seized. It is understood that at Present a large quantity of mails destined for Yunnan have been held up at Canton.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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