Everything Upset for Troops Tientsin, Sept. 17.
General Chang Tso-lin has quisitioned 240 trucks in order to transport the 20th Division from.
mukden to Peking. This Division only recently returned to Mukden from Peking.
The "Peking & Tientsin Times, in a leading article, points out that the recent civil war resulted in the complete disorganization of the railways in north China, the adrainistrations of which have not yet completed the task of tracing and recovering the quantities of rolling-Stock scattered along the railways, General Chang Tso-lin's order," Ithe article continues, "will again seriously interfere with goods and passenger traffic, the first result is that all third-class carriages have been taken off mixed trains. General Chang Tso-lin's action in sending down, withdrawing and sending down again the 28th Division on a journey of over 500 miles is absolutely inexplicable, and shows a callous disregard for the needs of the people and complete indifference to the wishes of the Central Government. The Division is not required in the neighbourhood of Peking, and its presence is most unwelcome to the people of Chihli, If the famine relief is to be handled successfully, the railways must be freed from the military incubus without delay.
The journal urges that the British authorities should protest most emphatically on behalf of the British bond-holders, and says that the best reply to General Chang Tso-lin's command would be an announcement that the foreign garjtisons were taking over control of the line from Peking to Shanhaikuan and prohibiting the movement of any troop-traing within the Great Wall.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.