Apart from the Yangtze tupan, the Anfu-Fengtien troubles in North China are due just to their having reckoned. without the. Chinese people, who are finding their chama pions in. the. persons of Feng Yuhsiang, Sun Yao and Hu Ching. That is why the evel a broadside of propaganda ers and news 8 continue
beainat these Generals, unfortunate:
with the unwitting aid of foreign organs and agencies. fre officially and unofficially backing: the 'AnfusPengtion elements, and the cue of Japanese papers is to throw dirt at anything and any body who isa potential enemy the' Antu-Fengtien combination. The latest attempt of the Japanese press in North China is to. {he coal shortage upon Sun Yao and Feng Vu-belong, who, they assert, fare trying to corner the market in Poking and Tientsin, Such. arrant nonsense is exploded at once. by the contradictory statements made, tone of which was to the effect that foal "was being confiscated around the Capital and diverted to. Tie tsin where "prices were. slightly higher. than in Peking." -Trasmuch fis Japanese paper, which made these statements, said the prices in Peking were $18 and 419 a ton, and that we happen to know that they range from $10.80 to $14.50 in Tientsin, the falsity of the claim
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.