A Chang Tso-lin Story Strenuous efforts by representatives of Chang Tso-lin now in Shanghai to secure machinery for the manufacture of rifles and am-~ munition are reported in the Chinese press. According to one report, it has been discovered that a factory at Nantao contains seven or eight hundred boxes of such machinery, ordered some years ago from America by the Director General of Arsenals, and lying unclaimed through lack of funds. Chang Tso-lin is said to have offered to put up $1,000,000 to pay for the transfer of the whole consignment to Fengtien, but he has been unable to secure the Government's sanction. Aa effort is accordingly being made to purchase other arsenal equipment, and the Tuchun's men are said to have half a million dollars at their disposal for this purpose.
Another report which may not be unconnected with this story is, that the Tuchuns of Chihli and Fengtien, meeting at Tientsin, decided to ask the Government to appoint Chang Tso-lin Commander-in-chief of the Fengtien army to operate against the Mongolians at Urga.
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