Foreigners returning from Suiyuan also report that Gen, Fu Tro-yi still entirely preoccupied with defence measures against further Monel attacks which he expects may take place ut any moment now. Such fan attack, however, seems rather un-Wkely. "Phe Japanese throw away, without obtaining the least result, Jarge sums of money en the futile attacks of Mongol bands last autumn, seems scarcely likely that inthe resent critical financial situation Japan the army will be allowed to money after bad There is Chi Hsieh-yuan, one of the former Chill war-lords, who had been living in retirement, in Tientsin for many years has been Mirting with the Japanese. "He Is now one of the leading persons on the Hopel-Chahar Council "and attends ite with the greatest regularity, but sad to relate appears to have quite changed his tune and has proved a sore disappointment to his Japanese patrons. Another bad disappointment has been the former "grey general," Shih Vu-san, At one time he was In open rebellion against: the Central Government, so that great things might have' been expected of him. But since he was appointed Commander of the Peace Preservation Corps in North Hopel, he has been fiving the Japanese constant trouble. He has repeatedly refused to take their orders and Is said to be on very food terms with the oticers of the Twenty-ninth Army.
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