Peking, Juno 27.
The Chihli-Shantung armies now on the Peking-Mukden Railway be tween Tientsin and Skanhaikuat have now been largely liquidatec by the adoption into the Shans armies, Chinese officers say that 120,001 men of Chang Chung-chang's Cht Vu-pu's and other commands, anc 80,000 men of Sun Chuan-fang': army, under Generals Cheng Chun yen and Li Pao-chang have turner Nationalist and are marching assigned posts on the eastern anc northern Chihli frontiers. Th: figures are probably exaggerated but the turnover means the recover; of much rolling stock and a vas quantity of stores, ending al threats of war inside Shanhaikua' unless the Fengtien withdrawal delayed.
Local Nationalists now seem assume that Chang Hsueh-liang the Japanese appointee to hi father's post and for that reason will be supported pending the selec tion of a more suitable governor It is: considered, therefore, tha there is little immediate prospec of Manchuria becoming Nationalis unless it is with Japan's approve It is assumed, however, that sine the conservative influence promise to be overwhelming in the Feng tien group the Japanese cane afford to support Young Chang, a puppet ruler over a prot period.
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