Confusion Over Appointment to Posts: Anxiety, Over Ulti Fate of Government Buildings, Posts and: Salt Peking, June 16.
'A committee for the administration of the war areas, headed by General Chiang Tso-pin, has now been established here and is taking cover the archives of all the Ministries.
The activities of the committee indicate a considerable lack of unity end to-day. General Yon has decided' to make up four units of Sun's troops and to name them the 5th], Army. Corps of the 3rd Group Army. Generals Cheng Chun-yuan and Li Pao-chang- have been appointed Commander and: Vice-Commander of the Sth Army. Corps, respectively.—Toho. among the Nationalists, various persons being appointed by the committee to posts to which General Yen Hsi-shan has already made appotitments.
General Yen's nominee to the post of Chief of Police in Peking has Yeon appointed by the committee Chief of the Bureau of Public Safety at Tientsin, awhile there are at present three chiefs of the Peking-Mukden Railway—one apby Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang, tone by General Yen Hsi-shan and tone by General Chiang Tso-pin's committee.
There are indications that General Yen Hsi-shan is at present tacitly agreeing to appointments made by the committee.
Friction with Kuominchun Subsided The friction between the forees and the Kuominchun seem to have disappeared, at least for tthe time being, while' it is mot likely that the remnants of the Fengtien forees will make any stand outside the Great Wall.
Peking therefore is absorbed in the question of the future capital of China, The removal of the Directoraty of Posts means prosumequipped in Poking and 20 ably, that its Inrge and well-
foreign residences will be left deve-
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