Disgust of Minister of Communications over Militarist Flouting of His Plans Faom Our OwN Connesroxoewn, Peking, Jan, 30.
Yeh Kung-cho has been absent. from his post at the Ministry of Communications for the last ten days, The rumours that he is "politically" ill are untrue but it is true that he is disgusted with the militaristic flouting of his plans for the return of the railways to pre-war traffic conditions.
The railway administration North China is fast approaching a state when only the strongest action will save it from complete disinter eration. Rolling stock has been Jeommandcered on all lines for military use, the best cars are reserved ax' billets for superior report confusion unparalleled in the istory of communications in China, with ears careering about the coun: try divorced entirely from th ways to which they were originally: allocated, This militarization of railways is realized in Peking be an urgent problem and the appointment. of new Minister of Railways ix being talked about to deal with it; but, Vike all other pressing matters, i¢ must wait on the Reorganization Conferenca, Government officials say that nothing, can be done but try to get military men at the eon ference to ce-operate in re-extablish= ing the admi The worst offenders amon the Warlords are Hu Ching-vii and Sun Yueh, both of whom are astride the Peking-Hankow Railway, and well satisfied with that position, Yueh, according to u recent mener to the chief executive, considers so healthy that he thinks he should be allowed to suppress the bandits of Kansu from his particular bali wick at Paotingfu,
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