The Committee of Public Safety has sent a wire to General Tan kai, General Yen Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shel Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang similar in its terms to the telegram from Diplomatic Body, explaining the General Pao Vu-lin's brigade being retained at Peking as it is feared that the Peking police are insufficient to maintain order in the event of trouble from deserters and hoping that General Pao's troops be peacefully replaced when the Southern forces arrive.
Peking is at present very quiet. Life everywhere is proceeding usual, There have been one oF tw> reports of looting by individual soldiers, but these reports have been suppressed by the police, who have shot two looters.—Reuter.
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