The Archive · 1926

Mukden Preparing to Fight

Work at Arsenal Speeded Up:

Troops Already Moving South Mukden, Nov, 25, Mulden has been made to respond to the decision of the Tientsin Conference to inaugurate a winter eampaign against the Cantonese, Troops from outlying districts have been brought into the city, while the 14th Regiment on garrison duty here has, received orders to proceed south wards to Shanhaikuan, At the game time the vehicles which had een collected here have been entrained for Tientsin and will_be used for baggage purposes. The commissariat of the 3rd and 4th! Army Corps under the command of; Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang will have its headquarters at Tientsin. Soma 200 quick-firing guns have been despatched from Mukden, and the production of the Arsenal Deingr speeded up and increased, ployees. being ordered to work 10 hours a day instead of the usual eight. The fleet of aeroplanes be-Tonging to Mukden has been mo-Dilized for service along the Tientsin-Pukow,—Peking-Hankow and Peking-Suiyuan railways and also at Tientsin and Peking.

General Wu Chen-hsing of Het-Jungkinng, has already—returned from Tientsin, and General Yang Yucting is expected back almost immediately, Fongpiao has dropped some 20 points on receipt of the news that fresh campaign is to be waged.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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