From 4 Own Connesronvest Mukden, April 18, A more comfortable feeling is ma-nitest in Mukden as the result of the Alllied successes in and around Peking. Though it was generally' known that the alleged conversations. between Wu Pei-fu and the Kuomin.. chun looking to a working arrangement between the two were simply propaganda, in the case of the Kuomin chun the wish being father. to the thought, nevertheless they had a depressing effect upon the local currency, which has again reacted: in consequence of the cheerful reports from the capital The retreat of the Kuominchun is hailed here with eigned delight, {and people are Leginning to indulge he hope that there will soon be a urceare of fighting. Sy fur as the Marshal was concerned, he undoubtedly regarded the struggle with Kuominchun ar one of life death.
Trains are running fairly regularly between here and Tientsia snd keeping fairly good time. Of course most of the prewar com: forts for travellers are lacking, but the main thing is that communication ix being "maintained.—When tone thinks that these trains have survived over six months of war, that bridges have been destroyed, and that the line has been broken in many places one must marvel that the railway ix in a position to at all. In no other country would a line be found running' *|xo soon after such experiences. A few days ago there was a bid cident near Chinchow when a goods] train Inde contents, but apparent nts are not allowed to terfere with the working of the line.
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