Students from Mukden Sent to Japan to Polish up From Our Own Correspondent, Tokio, Aug.~3.
Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, Mukden's warlord, has sent a party of 30 students to glean more information on military matters in Japanese institutions. Six of the students are to enter the Army Staff college while the others will be distributed amon; artillery, infantry, cavalry sad military engineering schools.
Mu. Chang Hsueh-tsao, second son of the Manchuria chieftain, is amongst the party and has declared that this is but the beginning of further plans that Chang ¢fitartains for improving the efficiency of his forces, More students are to be sent to Japan from time to time, according to him, and he incidentally took a dig at Peking ty declaring that the party is here entirely at Chang Tso-lin's expense "since thd Peking Government has neither the ability nor the money to send students abroad."
It was aleo stated that Tuchun Chang is still smarting at the defeat inflicted on him by General Wu and that, until he is in a position to balance this defeat, he will not be able to have much influence in the councils of the makers and breakers of Peking politics, which leads one to the belief that Chang entertains hopes of dictating to Peking just as soon as his Japan-trained officials can meet General Wu somewhere north of Peking and. trounce him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.