Chinese Merchants' Belief that He Is Secretly Preparing to Make More Trouble: Rumours of Wu Pei-fu Beginning io Stir "bit. comezion ith the following reporte, which it ig impossible to verify, it must be remembered that they are not ably a piece of ingenious propaganda by somebody who has a motive for keeping the northern troops in this district, Gen, Wa Kuang-hsin, Minister of War, left for Hangchow on Tuerday Mmorilog to, dlacuss with Gen' Sen Chueitang,. Tupan of Chekiang, the question of the latter's possible nile glance: tothe Central. Govern iment and of the rehabilitation of the Aryeval bey banded] over to the Chinese General Chamber 59, of Commerce to be transformed nto am industrial undertaking, the merchants are settling down to
appearing optimistic of "eternal Bninean "ones more, all of them peace" in Shanghai. They are now demanding that all troops stationed {ceally shall be withdrawn mediately and that, instead Peking appointing a Tupan for the Special Municips nd_a Huipan, mayor should-be made by popular flection head of the s'iministrntion.
Gen. Chang Chung-chang has. moved his" envalry, consisting ome. 200 horses. and_500 men, to Changchow and it is expected that within a very. short period. all Marshal. Chi Haieh-yuan's defeated forces will be rounded. up and repatriated, thus allowing the' Fengtien troops to be withdrawn from these parts.
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