Mme, Wilden Returns with Count De Sibour Peking, Aug. 25.
Accompanied by Mme. Wilden, wife of the French Minister, the Count and Countess de Sibour hopped off from Peking morning their return flight to Europe. They will fy across Siberia.—Reuter, 'A. SHANGHAT. vessel claims the! honour of being the first to sail under the recently-completed Sydney, bridge. Capt. B, Schreiber, master lof the China-Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Shun-Kong, informs the "North-China Daily' News" that hig vessel was the first sail under the bridge after completion on her way to Shanghai.
Other, Nanking officials. who discussed the coup defat in Lanchow vith the members of the Chinese press stated that apart from the ciular degrain tasued by the two re-bet generals, another one purporting to have bee bythe various Dublie. organisations of that pro-ince had been Feceived in Nanking, enouncing Gen. Ma Fu-hsiang and facement by Chinese of a Japar shrine near by. Following the cla hich came in the nature of a max, feeling ran high and the situation was tense, but fortunately, no further outbreaks occurred.
The settlement now. reached provides for mutual apologies and for the punishment of the per-his nephew, the detained Kansu|petrators. In addition both parties Provincial Chairman, for being|undertake to. do utmost to militarists. The latter telegram was prevent similar incidents in the described by Nanking officials as; having been issued by the rebel leaders in the name of the various public organizations in Lanchow.
Gens. Ma Wen-ping and Lei
telegram denouncing the 'Pro-Chamgrtien' have sued, a joint vineial "Chairman and his uncle, Gen, Ma Fu-hsiang, who chairman of the " Mongolian and Tibetin Affairs Committee in Nanking, for being allegedly responsible for the incessant fighting in that province during the) ast four years and saying Shi unpopular people, they. formed a Provisional Government-of 13 members, inch ing themselves and Gens. Chen' Koei-chang, Lu Ta-chang and Teao-chi. The telegram further alleges that the Provincial Chairman has been detained because he and his uncle, Gen. Ma Fu-hsiang, have attempted to exterminate all Kancu troops who are not loyd to Immediately upon the receipt a report of the Kansu coup d'état, the Central Government, telegr: ed to Gen. Yang Hu-chen, chair man of the Shensi Provincial Government, granting him full power to deal' with. the Kansu. situation. It is learned that Gen. Yang has} despatched telegrams to the two Kuominchun rebel generals, order ing them to stop their troop movement at once pending investigations of their alleged grievances against the detained Provincial Chairman. According to Nasking messages received here yesicrday, there has] ing in Lanchow Lanchow has no connection with the controversy between Chinese and Mohammedan, Kansu officials} in the capital have stated in an interview that the coup d'état is a fight for power between ex-Kuomin chun and Mohammedan generals in Kansu Province.
Gen. Ma Fu-hsiang, a leading 'Mohammedan general' and chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Committee, in another interview in regard' to the question, stated that the trouble] was of a local nature and that he Gid not think that it would spread to other provinces because, although they were ex-Kuominchun generals, the two rebel leaders were not acting under the "Christian General's" instructions, and, there-[fore, the coup did net indicat that the two generals bad revolted against the Central Government,
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