Changsha, "May 17-
At last things are beginning to oom out of the mist which rumour has been thickly spreading on all hands. It seems quite certain that within a few days General Wu Pei-fu will move away from Hengchow and take the men of the 3rd division away with him.
General Wu la one of ''sao Kun's henchmen. He wes the first of the Northern generals to enter Changsha after Tan Hao-min's retreat in the spring of 1918; he took up the advanced line fronting the south. General Wu has never been supplied with sutticient money for his forces. General Feng Vu-siang has but one brigade, and, moreover, has a wealthier district in Changteh than General Wu has had for his two brigades in Hengchow..\dd to the financial difficulties, the political struggle between the Anfu and Chibli factions, and you have the reasons for the urgency of General Wu's present withdrawal from Hunan.
The slip of the Anhui faction in regard to Honan makes it possible and desirable for the Chihli faction to follow up the slip with the addition of troops loyal themselves from Hunan (Governor Chang Chin-yao is of the Anhui faction—or, rather, he has been since his appointment to the post) to Honan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.