Shanghai os Tle 12 per annual Behee pac of Gninae All communications. should be addressed" to the Secretary, Nostitwent down before it rapid! April 4 the enemy were in f\ retreat and on April 9 General Chiang entered Hankow vie-tonously. It is sad to record that Colonel Bauer died of small~ pox in Shanghai on May 5.
The war.dragged.on for some weeks while the remnants of the expenses of his journey abroad. His army was to be kept intact under a general named by hin~ self, Subsequently, however, it was announced that Nanking had appointed Yen to "pacify the Northwest" and to take charge of the Kuominchun. On June 26 Feng arrived at Taiyuanfu where it is to be supposed he and Yen agreed on a common policy. A few-days later Yen went to Peking to meet General Chiang, but quickly succumbed the Japanese troops finally, withdrew from Tsinanfu and Tsingtao. They had been in occupation just over a year. On July 7 a further quarrel was settled at /Hankow by Japan paying $3,000 leompensation for the death of a feoolie who had been accidentally killed by a motor car driven by some Japanese soldiers. This in-Jeident had caused a great deal of friction, and in the early part of the year the Japanese. Concession but to assert that Yen had always been fully cognizant the Kuominehun's intentions end sympathized with their aim against Nanking.
This' star ment was not supported by' f Yen did not take any action against Nanking, but equally hi did nothing for it against th Kuominchun. On October 17, the troops of General Fang Chen-wu,-Governor of Anhui, who had been arrested in Nanking at the outbreak of the new ar, mutinied, looted the town, and' departed for the interior.
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