Peking, Mar. 1
While the various Shansi units heretofore stationed in northern Shantung and northern Honan have been falling back upon their original garrison. posts, information from rroliable sources indicates a stiffen ing of the attitude of the "war" action within the Shansi camp.
The 88rd (Shamsi) Division under General Sun Tsu-has been instructed to station itself at Shunteh, in southern Chili, about 70 miles north of Changteh on the Peking-Hankow Railway, while the 42nd (Shans!) Division under General Feng Peng-shu has deen transferred to Chengting at the intersection of the Peking-Hankow and the Cheng-ting-Taiyuan railway lines. Judging from the military. movements, it would seem that southern Chihti will "be the battleground in the event of a clash.
In the meantime, however, reports of Yen Hei-shan's impending departure for Japan continue to be yecoived here from Taiyuan, Tt is stated. that the Shansi proceed here with his family 'a5 he has made the necessary arrangements with President Chao Tai-wen of the Control Yuan relative to the military and civil administra tion of the north, especially for the two provinces of Chihli and Shansi,—Kuo Min, Peking, Mar. 15, Further additions to the mass of civeular telegrams. in. thes past month have been made by General Li Tsung-jen and his Kuangsi colleagues and by 20 Shansi telegram, declare that in spite of General Yen Hsi-shan's announce. ment of his retirement, General Chiang Kai-shek continues to bring munitions and—poison-gas into China, in order to crush the north.
'The telegram further accuses General Chiang Kai-shek challenging the Soviet last year and then leaving Manchuria to face the menace, alone, in order to weaken Marshal Chang' Hsueh-liar In conclusion the telegram urg General Yen Hsi-shan, Marshal Fong Vu-hsiang, and Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang to take up the posts of commandant and vice. commandants of. the anti-Chiang armies and to establish a new Government, 2 The twenty Shansi generals, in their telegram, also urge General Yen Hsi-shan not to retire.
Shansi troops are digging along the Chang Ho from Tzechow to Tsangchow, which is the old line held by the Jate Marshal Chang Tso-lin two years ago—Reuter.
Feng at Tungkuan Nanking, Mar. 15.
Reports that Feng Vu-hsiang-has returned from Shansi to Tungkuan have bees received here from the north, With the troops immediately. ander the Central Government garrisoning Tsinian and the units sunder both Hwn-Buchu and Shih Vu-san now stationed across _the Yellow River in northern Honan, it is reported that General Chiang Kai-shek will shortly proceed northwards along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway for an inspection of the in the north, return- opposit the Peking-Hankow Line. Kuo Min,
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