Peking, Dec. 10.
Foreign travellers from Paotingfu are bringing accounts of an impending revolt against Tuchun Tsao Kun which cannot be confirmed in Government circles in Peking but which are told so circumstantially by reliable persons who speak Chinese and_have come in close touch with the soldiery that they cannot be ignored.
The nucleus of the new military organization in Paotingfu is made -up of men from the 6th Brigade, the second brigade of the 3rd Division, formerly under the direct command of Wu Pei-fu, now under General Chang Fu-lai, a kindly efficient old soldier in whom Wa Pei-fu used to put great reliance. The old soldiers in the organization complain that they have not been paid for 13 months and that Tsao Kun is now directly responsible for withholding the funds. They say that when they were with Wu Pei-fu they had the satisfaction of knowing that whatever Wu had they shared and that they never lacked anything which Wu himself did not lack also. They say that now that they are directly under Tsao Kun their pay is diverted to the creation of parks and yamen improvements, and that they will be forced to' revolt to get what is due them.
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