The Archive · 1928

Shansi General Arrives

Later.

General Shang Chen with his bodyguard: entered Peking at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Heh issued a proclamation calling any Fengtien deserters in hiding to deciare themselves and to give up any arms and ammunition in their possession. The proclamation a sures foreigners that they will be fully protected, 'The Kuominchun troops at Nanyuan are preparing' to move down the Peking-Tientsin railway with tthe intention of attacking the forces commanded by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, Marshal Sun Chuanfang and General Chu Vu-pu in the Tientsin area—Reuter.

Yen Announces His Control Nanking, June 9.

General Yen Hsishan, in a telegram to the Government and Military Councils, announces that on the 8th he formally assumed his new post, as Commander-in-Chief of the ' Garrison Forces of Peking and Tientsin at Paotingfu.

An official communique from \the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Group Army says that General Yen Hsi-shan has organized the Headquarters of the Garrison Commander of Peking and Tientsin and has appointed General Chang Yin-li Garrison Commander of Peking.

The main forces of General Hau Yung-chang's Army entered Peking: yesterday, while over 80,000 Kuominchun troops under General Han Fu-chu have arrived at Nanyuan, south of Peking, The capture of Nankow Pass, on the Peking-Suiyuan Railway, bythe Shansi troops on the Sth was also reported—Kuo Min.

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