A Confused Situation: The Claim to the Civil Governorship Peking, Sept. 12.
Gen. Li Lich-chun is reported to have arrived at Hankow on Sunday on the Buryo Maru and was expected to leave for Shanghai on the Hoya Maru yesterday. He has left behind him a most confused situation in southern Hunan.
Gen, Chen Chia-yn, with about 10,000 soldiers, has his base at Yungchowfu and is facing the Hunanese forces at Kiyanghsien. while the remnant of Gen. Li Lich-chun's own army is distributed along the southern border of Hunan at Yingchowfu, Taochow, Yungming, Changhua and Langshan. All of these troops might, it is believed, come to the support of Gen. Tan Yen-kai in his bid for the Civil Governorship Hunan, and this fact is causing Gen. Chao Hong-ti grave anxiety. On the other hand the friendship existing between their leaders and Gen. Sen Hao-ken, who is at the head of the opposing Hunanese army, makes it-appear improbable that any serious clash will occur. Gen. Chao Hong-ti is said to have made energetic overtures to Gen. Li Lich-chun recently, but to have met with a rebuff.—Reuter.
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