Meanwhile, the Chinese press reports important changes in the Shantung Provincial Government personnel. It mentions the name of General Vu Hsueh-chung, former Manchurian commander under Chang Hsueh-liang whose troops were recently garrisoned at Tsingtao, as the one in charge of military affairs in Shantung Province. tung Province. In view of arrival of the Japanese forces in the Tsingtao area, with the intention of pushing outward and eastward of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the Chinese troops are concentrating at Chuchou. in east Shantung.—Reuter.
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