Urgent Call to Nanking for Dis-' bandment Money Taiyuan, Aug. 29.
A serious situation has developed! fu the north in consequence of the fact that, while various detailed measures for the carrying out of the disbandment enforcement programme for both the 2nd and the Sed Group Armies have now been y completed by the responsible thorities, the necessary expense sare not yet available, with the result El that military disbandment has not yet actually taken place.
It la stated that the wages in Jarrears due to the soldiers of the 3rd Group Army alone amount to approximately $90,000,000, and that the authorities are already stargering under the huge burden of the maintenance expenses of the large force, As for the 2nd Group Army (Feng! Yarhsiang's) it is generally admitted that the lending com. huanders.of the former Xuominchun fave, for come time past, found it] t impossible even properly to feed and tothe their troops, not to mention General Yen Hisi-shan is under ving them repot
stood to have. sent several urgent [telegrams to General Lu Chung-li: Minister of War, requesting that fonds be immediately. remitted to the. North-Western troops for their rmaintenance—Ta Chung.
*It is. only a few days since the seme-agency brought a report from the National Government that the Ministry concerned to make a cares ful study of various phases of the problem."—Ta Chung.
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