Mukden, Jan, 8
Quietness prevails here, It is at} present impossible to learn what is going on beneath the surface, and it is certain that no pronouncement] of: public policy will be made until the situation clears, Two days ago General Chang Hsueh-liang left for _Chinchow. Since then it has been reported that} the Into General Kuo Sung-ling's army at Shanhaikuan, which is under} General Wei, has returned to its former allegiance, but Reuter's correspondent is informed that this port is, to say the least, premature. Negotiations, interrupted by fighting]
few days ago, have been in pro-ures for some time but at the toment there is no official confirma. tion of their successful conclusion, The militarists are running the trains according to their own ideas on the Peking-Mukden line on this. side of Shanhaikuan, though so without any serious disaster having] been reported. They have no regard for other traffic, and if a nonuiilitary train happens to be on the ils as a troop train it has in order to avoid a colli Scattered groups of Kuo Sung-li soldiery are practising banditry along the line—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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