Peiping, Jan, 19, Reporis received here this morning slate that Bast Suiyuan is quiet, although the situation in "connection with the reported declaration Independence by. funer Mongolia remains obscure. Troops under Gen. Fu Tso-yi, Governor of Suiyuan, are Sti garrisoned at Pingtichuan "and Fengehen, as well as Taolin, and south and north of these disteiets. No troop movements are reported to he going on.
itis still not clear whether the reported declaration of independence was issued by the Mongol Autonomy Council, or whether Prince Teh, head of the Council, lent his name to the circular telegram containing the] Independence announcement, - which was also signed by Gen, Tso Shisha, commander of the Mongolian militia, Semf-ofliciat circles here, - however, declare that the situation is not s6 serious as was first reported, Tachingmen, on the Kalgan-Urga. yond and neat Kalgan, is reported to have been captured by Manchoukuo troops, who are also stated to have sceupied Shangiu, west of this road. The report that this road had been cut means. that all traffic between Urga and Kalgan.has stopped.
The Peiping office of the Mongol Autonomy Council to-day declared that no news had been received by thei of any declaration of indepen dence having been made by the Counell—Reuter, Chinese Papers Silent Nanking, Jan. 19, Chinese newspapers here, "while silent on the Inner Mongolian situation, give prominence to the proximo ity of Manchoukuo troops to Kalan fina the. southward "movement "of Mongolian militiamen from Pang-king, where Prince Teh, head of the Mongol Autonomy Courell, has nis headquarters, Its believed here that the. Mongolian militiamen moving south from Pangklang are under command of the Mongolian leader, Gen. Tso Shi-hal, who were last reported to ye" 70. from Pingichuen, on the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway.
'A. telegram. from Kwolhua, the Jeapital of Sulguan, denies the capture et Fengchen by Manchoukuo troops. and adds that Chinese soldiers contract the <disiriets of Fengehen, Tsining. Hsinho, Taolin, and Liangehen in East Suiyuan, and that their control romained unchallenged. Other Chinese elograms from. Kweihua purport (0 show that certain elements in Inner Mongolia are still friendly to Nanking. These state that the commander of the antlered forces of the Tehedzu League, and representatives of [Charhar and tuner Mongolia eld Important confereness. with Gen. Fu Tso-yi, Governor of Suiyuan, during} two days-—Reuler,
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