Peiping, Jan. 18, Believed to be a direct result of the present acute food situation in Peiping, the wife of Mr. Chow Chuang-sheng, President of the Pel-ping Chinese Chamber of Commerce, was shot and killed by gunmen yes: terday when leaving her home to visit her daughter in hospital.
The gunmen first wounded the chauffeur and a Chinese attendant, and then fired three shots at Mrs, Chow, the third bullet piercing her stomach and proving fatal, The Chinese police were informed, but the gunmen made their escape, Dissension Breaks Out in Shansi Tsingtao, Jan. 18.
Open warfare inside the ranks [Generalissimo Chiang Kal-sheles troops {fas broken out in the south of Shans! Provines, travellers "reaching here From the province informed Reuter today.
Approximately 0 quarter of a million men, two separate armies, are involved, these traveller Seclare, and they are now said to be engaged in fighting each other, instead ofsjointly fighting. the ordered by General Chiang Kai-shek.
Apparently the. trouble. originally arose over friction between the armies commanded by General Yen Hsi-shan, commonly" known as, his "old® army, and his "new" army. The sold" "army" is." the army which retreated with him before the Japan-advance, into Shanal over two Sears ago. 'The "new" army is an Srmy recruited since then' by' the
of strengthening his own position, strengthening' his own. position, from any Communists and. peasants who would join him.
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