Nanking, Mar. 15.
In view of the fact that Generals; Shih Vu-san and Han Fu-chu who had promised allegiance to the Nanking Government after securing war funds from the Nanking coffers!
re reported to have gone. over to the side of the Kuominchun, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek is reported to regard the present situation in a very serious light, Further rumours are afloat to the effect that. Mr. Wang: Ching-wei will go up to Peking with' the intention to fight to the bitter, end and considerable anxiety is prevailing here. All trains bound) northward from Pukow have been employed for the transportation of. arms and ammunition and passenger service on the railway line is suspended—Rengo.
Feng in the Pield Nanking, Mar, 16.
The possibility of serious develop-monts in the present political sitaation is indicated in reports published to-day by the Central News Agency, the official agency of the Government.
One report states that General Chiang Kai-shek has decided to Teave the-capital to-morrow afternoon between four and five o'clock, for Hsuchow to inspect troops on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. The members of the Chi ment, the agency adds, hay erossed the, river and" the arrival of the Generalissim> in Pakow.
'Another report issued by the' Central News Agency states that General Yen Hi whi tending to be for a trip abroad, is actually concentrating troops in Chihli for an} early attack on the Peking-Hankow: and the Tientsin-Pikow railways.
The agency further states that: Feng Vu-hsiang has left Shansi and. {sat present in Shensi, where he has received instructions from the Shansi general to return to Taiyuanfu and personally direct the operations against the Government in Honan. Marshal Feng is report-to be in Tungkuan, on the Shensi-Honan border.—Reuter Feng Changes His. Mind Peking, Mar. 17.
According to reliable reports from Taiyuanfu, it is learned that the Shansi leaders believe the Central Government determined, months ago, to crash General Yen Hsi-shan and subsidized Marshal Feng Yuhsiang to attack-him. General Yen, finding his position serious, was forced to allow Marshal Feng to return to Tungkuan, his headquarters, now decid-is crushed his turn will come next: hence he has now decided to support Shansi, The Shansi leaders also. claim that General Shih Vu-san is now definitely on their side while General Han Fuchu does not wish to fight and has requested that his troops be removed from Honan.
It fs further reported from Tai yuan fa that Marshal Feng mobilizing all his troops in Shensi and Kansu and that the Kuominchun fare pouring into Honan and have already occupied the important june-ion of Chengchow. Another: detachment of the Kuominchun is reported to be moving on Fancheng, in northern Hupeh.
The-Central Government recently] ordered General Liv Chen-nien, who controls Chefoo and the surrounding district, to withdraw his forees to Wating, in northwest Shantung. After holding a military council with his subordinates, it is understood that General Liu decided to try to find a plausible excuse to ignore the order—Reuter.
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