Continued reports are being received ere to the effect that] General Chiang Kai-shek is stripping Hankow of troops to the danger-point, apparently intending] to ignore that city for the present Tf hostilities commence, these reports add, the Generaissine will Commence a drive up the Tieatsin-Pukow Railway with Tientsin as the Marshal Chang Hsuh-liang has issued a circular telegram in which he declares that General' Chiang Kaishok and General Yen Hsishan are the pilars of the Kuomistang Party and the nation.
He is mach shocked, the Marshal says, to hear that the difference in their views may lead to armed force and urges them to selle the dis-
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