500 Plain-Clothes Men on Duty, at Peitaiho Extraordinary precautions taken by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang for his personal safety, as now ported from Peitaiho, show that there was not much ' opportunity for his assassination there, although a report to this effect was made few days ago and subsequently contradicted, The Marshal in the meantime is having a good time at the seaside resort, Visitors to Peitatho, who have retuned to Shanghai tell of the Marshal's arrival at the former place. He and his staff occupied two trains, the former being filled with plain-clothes men to the nu ber of 500, while the second train was of the armoured variety.
The plain-clothes men, curious to relate, were uniformly dressed io civilian clothing. All wore foreign-style khaki shorts, khaki stockings, shoes, tennis shirts and straw hats of the "banter" variety, and the effect of this horde proved overwhelming' to the foreign visitors who had heard of the "plain-clothes" men and expected to find an assort" ment of spies and what-nots, dressed in ty of clothing, lurking around odd corners and attempting to "pump" their servants.
The "army" lined the road for the Marshal's entry, spaced at an interval of @ few yards. Each moreover, held his right hand forward in the position usually adopt-Jed by bodyguards, but each right hand also had a white cloth over it to hide the pistol that it presumably further to emp the "plain-clothes" nature of escort, One incident occurred, when the men politely but "firmly asked a foreign Indy to get off the road. 'The lady spiritedly stated that had as much right to the road as they had, and she was actually al lowed to' remain. As soon as the, Marshal and his immediate circle appeared, however, six of the men surrounded the lady, thus making re that even she could make no attack on the Marshal When Marshal Chang Hsueh: Kiang came down the road, he accompanied by nine oF ten others. All vodo in ricshas and were simi larly dressed, and it would not have been easy to pick him out quickly, With all these precautions, and short of treachery, it seems that Marshal Chang Hsueh liang should be fe as anyone can be nowadays,
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