Peking, May 2.
Gen. Chen Chia-mu, Military Commissioner and Commandant of the 25th Northern Division (formerly commanded by General Hsiao Yao-nan) has been instructed by Marshal Wu Pei-fu to romain at Yochow. and not proceed to Changsha, for the present. The reason for this order, according to Chinese unofficial reports, is that there is a probability of Gen. Chao Hong-ti carrying out his promis" to cancel the autonomy of Hunan at an early date—Reuter's Pacific
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