This new" army,, which 1s now about 60,000 men strang, did. not live up to General. Yen's expectations of loyalty, and has for some time been noticeably more in sympathy with the [Communist Eighth Route Army group, tis stated, than with General Yen himself, whom it regards as some thing of an old-fashioned "warlord" type, Things came to a head the other day, it is asserted, when the Gene: tried to put the Central Government orders for this year's "winter cam-Palen" Into effect by allotting the Bnew" army all the hard work (to get them out of the way) and keeping. his "old" army, numbering some 200,- 000 men, in the background.
The dispute that ensued rapidly developed into open warfare between the "old" and "new" armies, it is stated.
This warfare, although 260,000 men are involved and Jarge-scale military operations are said to be in progress, ig still in the nature of a localized revolt, it is stated, and the Central Government "is understood to be making feverish efforts to keep the matter localized "and to effect a. peaceful settlement.
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