Tee suspension of the Tiestsin-Pukow Railway through service is causing much uneasiness, in Chinese circles and the general impression is that' further civil warfare is at hand, Oning to the interruption of the service, mails for Peking and other places in north China are now being] Sent north by steamer and will con-tinge to be sent vid this route until further notice.
The Chinese press yesterday published the following telegrams, with reference to the railway situa Only the Nos, 201 and 202 passenger services' are now running! between Pakow and sirian, it being! deemed unsafe for them to proceed! further north on account of the! destraction of the line between Tsinn and Tehchow by the Shansi forces. On the northern section, the No. 201 returned to Tientsin from Liencheng (not Lincheng) on Sunday morning because no trains were waiting there to meet the passengers. Southbound trains ars coming no further south than this point On February 1, Gen. Fu Tso-yi, the Tientsin Gendarmerie Commissioner, who has been appointed by Gen. Yen Hsi-shan_to.tho post of Commissioner of Defence for the Tienisin-Pukow Railway (Northera Section), sent a wire to Gen. Chen Tiao-yuan, chairman of the Shantung Provincial Government, dra ing his attention to the fact that the No. 2 northbound train had not arrived at Tientsin and saying that, in view of this, he isnot permitting any rolling stock to go beyond Lien cheng. Chen is asked to restore normal railway traffic by perrmitting the through trains to go to Tientsin.
In reply, Gey Chen says that trains will proceed directly to Tien-tin on condition that there is no interference on Gen. Fu's part with the southbound trains, In the course of a telegram to the presidents of the Five Yuan in Nanking (says the "Shunpao"), Gen. Yen Hsi-shan says. that he is pre-red to withdraw his telegram demanding the retirement of Chiang Kai-shek but he is firn in his own desire to resign office. Gen. Yen further says that the Kuominchun are engaged in bandit suppress sion work in Chili and he dentes that they have entered wes Shantung.
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