Message from Yon Hsi-shan to His "Blder Brother" Feng The Kuo Min News Agency, 'a message dated Nanking, June 16, gives the. following: translation. of a telegram from General Yon shan regarding the repeated reports, of a rupture between himself and Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang. A copy Of this telegram was sent to Gen. Li Lich-chun, at Nanking, by. General Yon hinaself with the statement that rumour-mongers have been very active fabricating stories of "impending" armed clashes between himself and Marshal Feng and that ach rumours are absolutely—unfounded. General Yen's. telegram to Marshal Feng follows:
"Dear Elder Brother Huan-chang "Lam in receipt of a telegram from Gen. Li Lich-chun to the effect that the Japanese Consul has informed hint (Gen. Li) that if the 2nd Group Nationalist Army (the Kuominchun under Marshal Feng) entered Peking, than the 3rd Group Nationalist Army (the—Shansi Forces under General Yen) would not shoulder the responsibility of maintaining peace and order there. and other such remarks.
T do not know whence such pro-yoking and alienating remarks ociginate. You and I stand on the same battle-line and share together the fate of success or failure. Our enemies are not yet exterminated and how can we allow others to sow discord between us, "I have already strictly instructed all my subordinates to be very careful in their remarks about others and shall mote out the severest punishment to -any of them who is guilty of making remarks detrimental to the spirit of unity and peaceful relationship existing between our two Armies.
If the removal of the capital is seriously taken up foreign officials express the opinion that Nanking will become a second Angora, Powers will keep their Peking—as they their Embassies in Constantinople—while they will merely send one vopresentative each to Nanking.—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.