Peking, Aug. 1. a communique issued to-day, Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang states that hho has received a telegram from General Liu Chen-nien, who is in control in the Chefoo district, offering his allegiance to the North.
In the course of his weekly intorview with pressmen to-day, Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang, the official spokesman of the Northern Coalition, stated that General Han Fu-chu had handed over the control of his troops to General Shih Vu-tan, who was reorganizing them on behalf of the Northerners, General Han Fu-chu, it will be remembered, announced his retiroment a few days ago in a circular telegram to Mr. Wang Ching-wei and the leading generals of both factions, stating that he had always stood for peace and that, as the war was causing the people of China endless suf hho had decided to retire and go abroad—Reuter.
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