Shansi Party Recall the Repudiation of Gen. Feng's Claim that Gen, Yen Is With Him Peking, Nov. 8.
Tt will be recalled that an official from the. headquarters of the Peking-Tientsin garrison informed Reuter last night that General Xen Hsi-shan had authorized him to announce that the alleged interview] of foreign correspondents with General Feng Vu-hsiang, in which the Kumoninchun leader declared that the Shansi general was cooperating with him against the Nanking Government, was ground. {iss so far as it referred to General Yen.
During the night a high Shansi official froma the garrison headquarters tried to communicate with Recter and, failing 20 to do, communicated with the foreign papers in Peking, requesting the [withdrawal and non-publication of the letter containing General Yen's clementi concerning the references to him in the interview given by General Feng Vu-hsiang to foreign correspondents—Reuter, **In the interview in question General Feng is reported to have laid stress on the fact that General Yen was entirely at one with hit on the general lines of opposition to Nanking.
Yen Hsi-sh Pledge to Feng Peking, Nov. 8.
With reference to the recent interview of General Feng Vu-hsiang, given to 2 group of foreign corre-
Siangyangfu. The Government troops, in the Laohokow district, have all been withdrawn on these pondents, as reported by Rengo on November 4, General Yen Hsi-shan, sent a telegram of explanation, on Tuesday, to General Sung Chih yuan, Commander-in-Chief of the Kuominchun, who is now staying at Loyang, asking him to make it public in proper form. "The contents this telegram are as follows:—"Th Shensi circles it is persisténtlly said that I am. disregarding the promise made to General Feng Yu-Hhsiang to ce-operate with him in his operation against the /Centfal Government, But, the real fact is that I have never broken'my "The facts are that General Liu Yui-feng, one of the chief lieuten- hi ants of General Feng Vu-hsiang, requested my secretary to state, on my behalf, that the Shansi troops ti would hereafter put no obstruction in the way of the freedom of action of the Second Group Army in view of the fact I had failed up to that time to guarantee the maintenance of the Second Army despite my promise to do so, I @as really ashamed to hear this, since I had been actually unable, up to that time to guarantee the livelihood of the Second Group Army in spite of my promise to take care of it "Consequently, I caused my secretary to reply to General Liu that the Shansi troops would place no obstacle to the freedom of action on the part of the Second Group Army. This was the real feet of the case, and besides this I have made no promises nor have I accoptfed any conditions. This being the ease, I want to make this clear to the general public so as to avoid Campaign in South Canton, Nov. 7.
With the departure for Kueilin of General Lu Huan-yen, Fieldcommander of the Advance Forces against the remnant "Ironsides" under "Chang Fa-kuei in northern Kwangsi, the eign for the extermination of the scattered rebels, is believed to have begun in earnest. The Kwangtung units under General Vu Han-mou in Linshan, northern Kwangtung, are crossing the border into Kwangsi with a view to effecting a junction, at Pinglo, with other Kwangtung units under General Hsiang @ian-ping. General Tan Tao-yuan's division has been it. structed to" take over the vacant
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