"Grey" Generals now "Our Own Comesroxoext Peking, Mar. 3.
After the warlike speeches of Gtr, 'T. V. Soong during his recent visit here, the glowing and opt a ropagands generally, the dramatic collapse the Chinese defence. in Jehol will ave come as a great. surprise to the general public in the South.
But here in the Novth, it had all along een "predicted. tu foreign anilitary citoles, and. expected by those in close. touch with what was woing on under the surface, and, ast, but not least, by the Chinese Public here. For' several weeks there hal been talk amongst. tha public about dissensions between various generals,—whilst cereal ¢ommanders were mentioned as be-that the plain-clothes gentlemen are the too.s of the Chinese whereby they "hope to" put the Japanese in the wren 'The truth of the matter probably lies midway between these two views: That, on the whole, the Japanese do not want to add their' burden at. the. present _mo-incidentally, Risk more with the other Powers; but tit Is to the advantage of the use every opportunity they can find to embroil Japan with the' Powers. Therefore, it would seem, that, as long as the tension between the two countries continues, tone must count with the possibi if perhaps. not the likelihood, of further Japanese adventures here in the North.
Chi in Balance Mar. 6
Th" Jehol fiasco has k: d to the usual mysterious. scurrying About feng sector of the Chinese lin: Jof important persons whose exact was his defection that enable [whereabouts it is dificult to keep the Japanese to occupy Chihfeng 50 track. The Young Marshal has zapid'y and practically without any left Teking: and is F: ported to have fighting. In the South, on the one to Paotingtw 'V. Soong Lingyuan sector, two battalions of who was actually. officially report Tang Yusin's troops also went over fed to have arrived here two days the enemy, on the road between igo has 80 far not pul in-an ape Lingyuan and Chaoyang, thus leavpeteance, hough he. and Genera luang Rajshck are expected at an ing. gap through which the Japa-moment. The "Military Counci nese advanced unopposed and threa-that is supposed to direct aff tened from the year Chang. Hsueh the North" has also, removed Tiang's troops who up to then had ting-fu where, deen putting up quite a good fight against the Japanese "forces, td-Pertane, persons are mors likely to old their meeting, rather than in Nancing from" Suichang. "These Peking ici. General Ho. Cheng Chinese forces were, thereupon, Ying is the only one whobas so fat ccompelied to fall back and abandon Lingyuan. "With "both the key {rte yp: and rumour evedite with Dung the successor of the Positions Chihfeng und Lingyuan,
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