The Southerners have made good their opportunity in spreading wild rumours concerning Sun Chuan-fang army, For instance, it was nearly the whole ad been burnt by men, Another mo3- sage spread abroad by the Southern paganda bureau was that the to. Narsingchino water front, ete sin Zabiioe
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There has been some fighting between Yongkang and Tsinuin. The Southerners were worsted and many of their wounded were carried to the hospital in Kinhwafu. The people that area have been panic stricken. With the advance of the Northern Army, and Kinhwa were vacated in space of a few hoars and now the roads are alive with soldiers fleeing towards Chuchow. The rowdy stu dent element in this area suddenly become conspicuous by ite Marshal Wu's Bad Position Peking, Jan. 21.
The position of Marshal Wu Pei fa now appears to be precarious.
Apparently the rival forces' are! now sandwiched at various points along the railway i Honan, but the rebels against Marshal Wu are reported to hold Chumatien and Yencheng.
The Marshal is again talking of retiring from public life.
The Victim of Clever Propaganda Jan. 23, Well informed travellers from Honan te that Marshal Wu-Pei-
{u's position iz not so bad as it has been represented to ba, They state, that clever propaganda against the Marshal is being carried on in Honan and elsewhere, supposedly by the brothers General Chin Yun-peng and General Chin Yun-ao.
To is stated that General Chin Yun-peng was formerly one of those responsible for the Nishihara Loan; hence the Marshal hus always been against him and when the Fengtien party recently considered General the Chi Yun-peng for-the Premiership nas marshal Wa who pit a spokelthe Province.
The anti-foreign movement shows ino signs of dying out, At a mis" sion hospital at Yuinhsien, a day's journey from Tzeliutsing, the great alt: centro, @ Canadian doctor wat performing an operation but wae hampered by one of his assistant [who appeared to be endangering the of the patient, The doctor pushed the assistant away with his knee and rebuked him. The.a%~ sistant, feeling deeply aggrieved, complained to the student union, As a result the city was soon in an uproar and in spite of all attempts at conciliation the most extravagant demands were made of the members fof the mission, The students de" manded inter alia that, "as the matter was of national importance," all the Mission's property should be taken over by the eity.—Reuter, Wa Pei-tu'
Yoke in Honan
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