For twenty-four hours Peking was a very agitated little island surrounded by no one knew what and there must have been a deal of excited telegraphic correspondence between the various Nationalist camps in this time. There was 10 senior Shansi man in the city or near it. The nearest of their troops vere small units of Tang Ching-lin's 8th Army just south of the city and other small bodies of Hsu Yung-chang's 3rd Army to the west at Changhsintien. Those who had seen the Kuominchun at Nanyuan liked neither their looks nor their manners and the correct report that they had occupied Tungchow, east of
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