Mukden, Sept, 20, The Manchurian cat has at last fact that troops are being sent immediately to Tientsin must have Mr. Simpson's plea to Marshal Chang to follow the example of General Yen Hsi-shan and appoint him adviser and Commissioner of Customs at Tientsin was fatly refused despite the extraordinary bait offered and he left for Tientsin last night a sadder and a wiser man to hand over control to the officials appointed by the Inspector-General.
Int(eviewed this morning, both Mr. Wellington Koo and Mr. Lo Wen-kan denied the report that they were leaving for Taiyuan. Dr, Koo hopes shortly to leave for his home at Kading to attend the memorial service to his mother while Mr. Lo going to Tientain to join family for the Mid-Autunm festival. hopped out of the bag, or, least, its hand and front claws are out. The political guessers have now mothing else to guess about.
hitherto they have speculated when ther Manchuria would move at all; whether the proclaimed policy of "neutrality" could withstand the insistent overtures of the south and north, and so on.
The way they guessed depended upon the way their feelings or their ments leaned, or the way they wished or hoped.
Ihave been try-for some weeks to indicate that move was certain and the trend of it; and, now the move has been made, the speculators can amuse thernsaives "trying, ea. determine "Out" to Callers what next.
Tientsin, Sept. 28, Mr. Lenox Simpson returned from Mokden to-day, but callers at his idence were informed that he was In the meantime, according to Chinese sources, Mr, Han Lin-st the brother of the Manchurian General Han Linchun, has been ap pointed Chinese Superintendent of Customs in Tientsin. The question of the appointment of Commis joner is apparently sti held in Christian General Active Peking, Sept. 29, It is reported from Kuominchun sources that General Feng Yue hsiang has now taken the off sive in Hono)
According to these reports fortnight ago General Chiang Kai shek, with five divisions of "grey" troops, Tung. yang, Stechti, ° Kunghsien and Loyang while other troops advaneed from Hsuchang to Chengch It is stated that some of the Ni king forces reached within se' ven
the tales of Chengchow but that advanced Marshal Feng Yuhsiang enclosed behind them the result that a number were [entrapped and forced to hand over their arms and ammunition.
The Kuominchun now state that The telegram that emerged from Headquarters carly on the morning of the 18th does not indicate too clearly the ultimate direction of the move. It calls for peace; it allude to the telegram of March 1; it tell military men they should obey the orders of the Central Government, ind it suggests that people with ideas as to how the country might be saved should send them in to that Government.
The reference to the telegram of March 1 is significant, for that telegram slid something about the desirability of the country being run by the people through a constitutional form of government, if my memory serves me aright. I may be wrong, but the fact that the telegram of September 18 does not specifically elaborate some policy of this kind gives the herents of the north-western campaigners for a constitutional government "furiously to think," and, what is more, furiously to argue, 'The. Nanking' supporters the telegram out and out recog ion on their side; the opponents dunally affirm that the expectations they were led to entertain that Manchuria would strike for reform,—even if it did, as a matter of principle, object to the setting up of a second government—have been baely betrayed. Both may be wrong. One thing is two divisions of Nanking troops] (re that is that if the telegram di are surrounded in the vicinity of] as'gome sort of a Bembshell: the upon the Peking poli Tangfeng and Mibgien where fighting is said to be Proceeding.
General Lu Chung-lin is report ted by the Kuominchun to be lea ling five divisions "somewhere Eastern Honan." This, ascordi ing to foreign sources, means eastward of Lanfeng. Fore' authorities ako atate that Marshal Feng. Yuing is attempting to advan have entered Shanhaikuan while the Government enveloping movement is almost complete in the war Zone so that it will be impossible for the Shansi and Kuominchun forces to treat to their home provinces.
Nanking Replies to Young Marshal done 30, for Peking is not far from The telegram does not mention troops and therefore does not say hhow they are to be used, Do they march in the garb of armed medig~ tors,.or are they probable partieipants? Are they filling the gap of protectors of the northern populace in the absence of Shansi soldiery, oF are they taking up the job as reliefs for the Shansi soldiery what time the latter run along to reinforce their fellows at the front? These are questions that are being propounded in the teashops other places where politicians most do congregate, but 1 do not propose to answer or pretend to know how to answer them, I state them solely because they are bothering the north-western politic What 1 believe be aid that the Young shal does not Intend to plunge into warfare if lie can help it, and that he does not intend to allow Communist: hordes to run loose about the north if he can help it. 'Since both sides an-ounce that they intend to fight: to 4 finish, it is safe to assume they wil draw every man and every gun from' anywhere and everywhere to the battle front, and if that is done by the north-western side, a vast region will be bereft of protection.
Already it has been reported that camp of Communists exists in the "mountains somewhere north: feast of Tongshan; maybe others fare ready to form as soon as opportunity presents itself. Certainly the presence of some forty thousand well-armed men scattered between Peking and the Great Wall may be deterrent, and may prevent a Dloodthirsty' horde from secution footing in a region where there is considerable wealth and much value to loot.
If that is why the troops have gone forward then it is a wise precaution, I fancy the fear of the thawesterners that the troops: may be used to harass their rear or their flank is not well grounded, but it must be admitted that the fact that Manchurian troops. ha moved is not calculated to cheer them or to increase the morale of their men. It is always difficult. to forecast anything in China except that we shall see what we shall see, and that is about all that can be said on this point until some official pronouncement is made, In inside circles here it was known two o three days ahead that a decision was to be made on the territory north of the Yellow River, General Vu Hsueh-chung, the Muklen comniunder, to take control of Tientsin and Peking.
General Yen Hsi-shan to ask G oral Feng Vu-hsiang to go abroad.
General Han Fu-chu to remain in Shantung and General Shih Yureorganize Peng's army.
Veain-Loads of Troops Pourinic Tate Chili Peking, Sept. 25.
According to information from veliable Chinese sources, 59 more troop-trains packed with Manchur-"ian troops will enter Chihli in addi tion to the 20 trainloads which have already arrived. newspapers to-day state that Marshal Chang Hsueks Hang is despatching a delegation Peking which, subject to the ap prosal of the Nanking Govermen:
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