1 The community had scarcely a Bumed this complacent attitude and drawn a few free breaths when Pao Wa-lin and his column marched back into the east suburbs of Peking let it be known that, half way to Tungchow, they had been met by a Kuominchtin force which halted them and insisted upon the surrender of their arms.
Once more the city fathers, supported this time by Shansi\ staff officers, entered upon strenuous diplomacy; but: Han Fu-chu' gave. them no satisfaction and the following morning before -they were fairly astir, Pao's force had been disarmed and marched away to Nanyuan by a superior force of Kuominchun that had come up and surrounded their camp in the night, while Pao himself escaped into the city and took refuge in the Legation Quarter. This was a direct slap in the face for the Nanking Government of an "united China," for the Shansi staff and most particularly for the Diplomatic Body, which is a subject that deserves special and detailed discussion.
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