Chengto, May 26.
Political and military circles. are much agitated these days. As intimated in previous despatches, the three big military men here have' jerome to an understanding and established a union goverment, According to newspaper reports! fof the meeting at which the official Announcement was made, each the three speakers professed to have only the interests of the common people at heart. In any case such government as the people will get will be determined by these three men who have been supreme in these parts for almost three years now.
The effects of the outbreak of fighting in the eastern part of the province were soon felt here. According to reports, it had been decided to send out of Chengtu most of the soldiers who have been enjoying life in this city and that the several generals were to move their headquarters to their respec tive territories. And from the troops movements this would seem to have been done. All of which indicates that the necessary pre-Harations are being made for the spread of the Yang Sen trouble in this direction, According to the information provided by the local press, General Li from dowa-river occupied Wanhsien after it was evacuated by Yang Sen, but whether as an ally of Yang, or as a representative of the Nanking government, is not yet clear, "Yang is reported to hay ioen badly defeated after having won some minor victories over the troops of his former generals. who The real trouble Yang finds himself in is said to be the putting to death some months ago of one of his generals, Yang Chuan-fang, and the fear of others that they might suffer the same fate, The friends of the la general have now come to t assistance of the men acho have turned against Yang. Of these the! most important are General Lai Hsin-huei, one of the oldest of the Szechuan' military elique,- and his friend, General Chow, Governor of Kueichow, who has been earning uch a good reputation lately in that province, If Yang Sen does: not succeed in persuading some one to come to his assistance, it would seem that his position must become precarious.
One rumour puts the blame for the outbreak of this disturbance and the: spread of civil war in the province on Marshal Wu Pei-fu, who is represented as having plans for the uniting, of these three western provinces as an independent Extensive preparations are being} made by the authorities for a three day celebration of the victories of the Southern armies. Demonstrations during the day, lantern parades at night and free "movies fu the public parks are the m features. Some: days ago speci proclamations were issued by the' three military leaders warning: people against interfering in any. way with the foreigners of the city. Additional interest is given to the celebrations of the next few days by the fact that these will almost coincide with the anniversary of the 1925 incident and will be somevihat the nature of a test of the local feeling in respect to that affa There is no indication at present of any attempt to work up antiforeign feeling.
The newspapers continue to carry' pages of anti japanese matter but otherwise there is little to indicate that the people are iving much thought to the situation. Some papers are intimating that the United States Government has me terfered and that Japan is thus unable to carry out her plans—Reuter.
Maxta, June 2:-—Mr. H. Stimson, " the Governor-General, will act! to prevent the Chinese "death to traitors" council from carrying out the threatened punishment of Chinese merchants who refuse to-obey its "orders to boycott Japanese goods.—Rteuter.
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