At all events the Shansi troops—bodies of the 3rd and 8th armies—showed every disposition to keep their pledges until, on Wednesday, June 6, just when a clear under= standing had been reached and communicated to the diplomatic Body, giving Fengtien another 48 hours to evacuate the neighbourhood, promising Pao Vu-lin an honourable send-off and so forth, the startling news reached Peking that a largo Kuomintang force under Han Tue chu, the notorious conspirator who met Kuo Sung-ling in Japan in the autumn.of 1925 and planned the rebellion against Chang Tso-lin, had appeared about noon at Huangtsun, having come overland from Ky-an, had at once moved up to Nanyuan barracks, immediately south of Peking and had attacked a small body of retreating Fengtien troops killings many outright and seizing a number of wounded who were promptly mutilated in various ways,. This news came about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and was ut once confirmed by telephone to various points south of the city.
Within an hour it was also reported that a detachment of Shansi troops that ud moved ahead of the advancing Kuominchun, had arrived at the Yungtingmen, the principal south gate of the city and desired immediate entrance. The city elders fat once became frantically busy in their negotiations with both forces outside, Pao Vu-lin's troops manned the south wall and prepared to defend it and all city gates were closed. A roving band of "plain clothes" Kuominchun cut six out of seven telegraph lines connecting, Peking with Tientsin somewhere near Lofah and the seventh wire, together with the telephone line, were out some hours later,
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