Sianfu, Oct. 30.
This ancient city has just witnessed another change of government and we have passed peacefully under the nominal control of Nanking. We heard more than a fortnight ago that a general retreat of, the Kuominchun was in progress and then some soldiers struggled in from the East with the news that Yang-Hu Cheng with his army of, Shensi troops had taken Loyang. and out the Kuominchun in two.
This victory had been won not so mitch by hand fighting as by the fact that all the Shensi mon in Sung Chih-yuen's army promptl went over to Yang. On Fri October 24, the motor buses not get through but came back with the news that Yung-kuan had been bombed and taken. ling with opposition, We declared that he would fight on till dog ate dog.and man ate man.
Two or three thousand of Gen, Ma's troops' came in yester Many of them marched with bare feet but that may. joon due the muddy roads, We hear that Liu Vu-fen's escaping soldiers had a bad time, They crossed the Wet River with the hope of getting into Shansi by T'ungshowfu but it was pouring with rain and the motor cars and buses could rot be gob across and were abandoned in the mud. Some places were looted by them ax they left but as the country. north of the Wei River is swarming with bandits it is doubtful if they got away with much or got away at all. It is said too that 20,000 men of the Central Army crossed the river north of 'T'ingkuan in order to cut off that lino of retreat.
The people in Sianfu are very pleased because there has Leen no disturbance here. There wax a fine On Sunday morning we woke up to find the city gates closed and Vu-fen, the Provincial Chairman, fled, with only a few hundred local soldiers left to guard the city. Sonie responsible people hastily organized some kind of defence force sxd the police and what soldiers there were went about wearing white arm bands with the inscription "Peace Society," which sounded as if the millemium had come. The people got out flags to welcome Yang Hu but during' Monday there was a good deal of anxiety as ce news had been received and it was impossible to get in touch with the incoming army.
However at night some presentatives arrived and assumed control in the rame of Ma Cheng-wan, who is one of Yang's Generals, well-known "and Then on Tuesday an aeroplane flew round scattering an address by Yang Hu to the fathers and brethren of his beloved native country, saying, that he came to deliver them from oppression of the bandit army of Feng Vu-hsiang which was responsible for the famine and all their troubles. Gen. Yang is the man who held the city during the famous siege of 1926 opportunity for the Communists to rise if they had been armed and organized, but nothing happened. The rain too has been a great merey. It came just in the nick of time to enable the wheat to be planted and since then it has poured down for two nights which has riven the wheat a good start. This heavy rain came immediately the Kuominchun departed. People of all Feng's plat forsook Christianity, how blight and famine have come to all the dis tricts he controlled and how that the moment his men leave Heaven again is kind. If only he and Yen had been content to work for the prosperity of their own provines instead of embarking on these great military and political adventures what misery would have been avert ed. Perhaps they will have leisure now to think on these thinge, Nankine, Nov. 17—The _dipiomatic representative of Czecho~ Slovakia is now in Nanking to ex; change with the Central Govern ment ratifications of the treaty of amity and commerce recently -negotiated between the two countries,
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