Peking, Aug. 19.
Reuter has received from Mr.
Wall he was only, he said, copying what General Wu Pei-fa was doing Lenox Simpson, Advisor to the on every mile of railway he could President's Office, the following get hold of. He declared that this additional particulars regarding system of looting the railways had his recent visit to Mukden, which been initiated by General Wu Pei-are interesting in view of the apfu and apparently approved by proach of negotiations between foreign interests.
Russia and Japan, and (supposed-Simpson said it was not so ly) between China and Russia approved and that it had done He stated in regard to, the more to damage General Wu than sections of the Peking-Mukden rail- anything else. relationship of Fengtien to Peking remained sec entanglalh as ae pre aad "so long as General Wa Pei-tu interfered with the whole governmental machine in 2 manner which had never attempted fore at any time during the life of the Republic." He constantly reseated that 00,000 of salt taxes had been remitted this year, whereas most other provinces, including those so-called "loyal," had sent nothing at all. He said that a general Salt Conference in Peking was tha only way of settling the matter. He would permit Vengtien representatives to attend.
He declared that he was not unmindful of China's foreign obliga. tions, and that "in spite of British hostility to him," he had withdrawn his troops from the Teng-shan area after battle positions had been prepared, simply to save the wrecking of the Kailan min Theaters of. the:. Mancuivisn way beyond the Great Wall that} Pjnally. after a great deal of dis- prov against Britons and there appeared to be some 1,200 ea cussion, General Chang "Tso-lin Ame: s was, however, very belonging to all the railways north intimated that he would return all} marked, "ow ing to their unneutral of the Yangtze lying at the stations yelling-stock on one conilition—attitude inside the Creat Wall," and some 90 locomotives, many of that the railway in its entire length and only recently he had stopped which were burnt out or derelict be ry ec, for commercial uses, a general boycott of their goods and urgently in need of repair. military seizure being forbidden. which would have been ruinous to He presented to General Chang
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