Peking, June 16.
Normal communications by telegraph, telephone, motor road and railway are gradually being restored, but meanwhile numerous Naning agents are very busy dismantle ing the machinery of the Peking Government and assembling the archives for shipment to Nanking.
The prospect of the reduction of Peking to the status of a provincial capital is disturbing thousands of small yamen employees and also the whole commercial community which ly on official pat The Kugminchun is abiding by the new pledge to remove outside the 100 Li radius both in Peking and Tientsin.
Hupeh Leader Controls Railway Ge eral Han Pu-cha has gone to Hsincheng for a conference with General Lu Chung-lin, after which, according to common' report, his force will be withdrawn from Paotingfu.
Meanwhile General Pei! Teung-hsi is taking over the agement of the Kin-Han Railway and removing the admi tration to Hankow, thereby discomfiting the French employees.
The Legations are unmoved, beence Nanking must attain recogni. tion on its merits before any capital there can exist in the diplom: sight, and years might pass before Nanking would be considered stable enough to warrant the removal of the Legation, Excellent order is being maintain ed by the Shansi troops and the Wuhan soldiery of the Kuominchun throughout this area, and Yen Lis! shan, under Nanking's carte blanche appointment ix acquiring a firm grip without ostentation. Much judg-shown in the retention I experts in executive It is generally believed here that the return of Chang Tso-hsiang, the Tupan of Kirin, to Mukden, is a prelude to his assumption of control in Manchuria as a champion of the Nationalist cause.
Soviet agents are meanwhile distressed by the conviction that the Fengtien conservatives are preparing to take refuge in Heilungkiang under the leadership of Chang. Chung-chang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.