Peking, June 27.
An amusing situation has been created here by the appointment of two mayors of Peking, which is generally regarded as the first open clash in the four cornered political struggle for the control of the despised "Peiping."
Ho Cheng-chun, was inaugurated yesterday as the candidate approved by Chiang Kai-shek and Yen Hsi-shan, before Ho Chi-kung, whom the executive council in Nanking appointed at Feng Vu-hsiang's behest, could announce his assumption of office.
Ho Cheng-chun is Chiang Kai shek's chief political lieutenant and, as schoolmate of Yen Hi: brought about the latter's original tions for the closest political cooperation, Ho Chi-kung, Feng Yuhsiang's secretary is almost unknown, so his appointment by the Nanking Executive Council which ives him legal claim to the post in Peking over Ho Cheng-chun makes it clear that Feng commands 4 majority on the executive council and also in the Nanking Cabinet.
Farther, Chiang Tso-pin's dorsement' of Ho Cheng-chun's as. sumption of office gives the support of the War Areas Committee to Chiang Kai-shek and Yen Hsi-shan, as opposed to Feng Vu-hsiang and the executive council.
Pel Chung-hsi's opposition to the Chiang-Yen combination opposing Feng is popularly taken for grarted at the present, but Chiang's prospective trip to Hankow watched with the intense st inforest because it is thought very likely that he will win Li Chung-Jen's adherence in Pei's absence to the league for the political isolation of Feng Vu-hsiang and the neutralization of his majority vote in the Nanking governing bodies.
If Pei Chung-hsi then proves recalcitrant he can be checked by the recall from Hongkong and the re-to army here remains devoted.
The coming conference, if attended by the four pri Kai-shek, Li Chung. shan and Feng Vu-hsiang, which is scarcely likely, will be an intense struggle with Wu-Han, in a position to split the party by suporting Feng, or to isolate Feng by joining the Chisng-Yen alliance.
Peking, June 27.
It is reported that General Yen Hsi-shan has increased his forces by 100,000 since his arrival at Peking, mainly by reorganizing remnants of the Chihli-Shantung armies.—Reuter, 'THe Tsinan Diplomatic Support Committee, according to the Chinese press, has collected a mass of information and, facts concerning the clash between the Japanese and the Nationalists, which are being published in book form for circulation throughout the country. Meanwhile, the Kuomintang has succeeded "in producing mot pictures portraying scenes, and these will be sent to-the different cinema houses for public exhibition.
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