Peking, Aug. 21.
The "Peking & Tientsin Times" has published a translation of a speech made by General Chang Tso-lin delivered at a reception of the representatives of British and American firms at Mukden on August 12, in which he felicitates himself on the harmony which has prevailed in Manchuria during the past 10 years. He says that his object in the Chibli-Fengtien clash was reunification. He did his best to protect foreign lives and property. In this connexion he instances the withdrawal from the Kaiping area. He continues in this strain at length, attempting to justify his action regarding the railways, salt and the seizure of aeroplanes. In connexion with the latter he charges the British with un-neutral action and generally asserts that the British favoured General Wu Pei-fu against himself, after which he threatens to telegraph to their Emperor and to ask
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