Peking, Jan, 17.
Mandates issued yesterday night were as follows 'The first says: that the Gover mont learns that Marshal Chi Hsieh yuan is the instigator of the hostilities. Apart from ap) a delegate to examine and deal Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, the mili tary authorities of Kiangsu. should order their' troops to guard territory faithfully, not to believe rumours and not to start disturb ances, If further disturbances occur, the military authorities. will held responsible The second mandate accepts the the resignation of Mr. Han Kuo-chun and appoints Marshal La Yung-hsiang, Pacification Commissioner of Anhui and Kinngsu, Tupan of Military - Affairs of Kinngsu vice Mr. Han, The third mandate appoints General Fang Pin-jen Tupan of Kiangsi.
By the fourth mandate General Wang Juchin, the Commander-in-Chief of the' Upper Yangtze, is Appointed concurrently Pangpan (Assistant "Tupan) of Military Affairs in Hupeh, 'The fifth mandate announces tha: the posts of Tuli of Shantunye Chékiange and Fukien are abolished, and that Generals Cheng Shih-chi, Sun Chuan-fang and Chow Jen Fon ave' respectively appointed Tupans of those. provinces, By the sixth mandate General Chin-shan ig appointed Assistant Gommander-in-Chief of the Uppet Jan, 18, Mandates issued yesterday night abolish the Tuchunates of Shen Kanxu, Shansi_and- Sinkiang, apps ral Li Ching-lin Pu} of Military: Rehabilitation Affairs of Chihli, similarly General Yen Lis shan of Shansi, General La Hunsetao of Kansu, General Liu Chen-hus Shensi, General Yang Tseng-hsin of Sinkiang and General Change Toung-chanye Chief Commissioner for Bandit Suppression in Kinngsu, Anhui and Shantung, It ix expected that the Rehabilittion Conference will he held in the Hunijentang or Tuanehene, the famous halls of the Winter Palace I communique says that n Chunn-fang is sending Kao Exh-teng to Peking a" his representative a the Confer General Wu Kuang-hsi of War, left Pekin yest it is understood that he will proceed to Nanking in order to dixeuss with Lu Yung-hsiang the military situa tion in Kiangyy.—Reuter's Pacific
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