Well-informed circles now generally express the pinion that whatever may have been General Yen Shih-shan's intentions a week he is' not likely to attack Fengtien present.
IChinete and foreigners who have Gust arrived here from. Shansi de-flare that General Yen Shih-shan still desirous of maintaining his policy in the past years of keeping Shansi free from the vavazes war. He has been a member of the Kuomintang since 1911, but be-Jonged to the extreme Right Wing, and his recent hoisting of the Ku mintang-flay: is intended os n ses ture'that he will keep on good terms: with the South, not as a declaration of, war against' Fengtien. They assert that he at present fears hostili-tee, with. Marshal Feng. Vu-hsiang her than. with Mukden.
f.18, believed that General Chu withdraw to the Shar Chihli. frontier, leaving. Aar~ shal Chane, Chonacchang -slone. ta defend Shantung. Despite the utter failure of the latter's troops hitherto, it is believed that they will fight mich better if they are compelled to defend their own Province. It is suggested, however, in some that General Chiang Kai-e was of a defensive nature in order to free Nanking from continual shelling rather than with the object of capturing Peking, and the opinion is expressed that he will not advance further at prose In view of General Tang Senechi's difficulties with the "Red. Spears" as well as the financial embarrassment of all parties, it quite possible that Peking will remain in Fengtien control a month, possibly for months.—Reuter.
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