He has already sent forward 16 trainloads of troops and is still sending them at the rate of two or three a day. 'These trains go to' Hsuchowfu and thence to Pukow,! making the run in 26 hours. The (General will himself leave during! the latter part of the week end his present destination is Changchow. [General Bei was frank enough to say' that he had no. idea whether Ihe would ever return to Haichow or not, saying rather Haughingly that he might be back for New Year dinners, or—and_ left the sentence unfinished. But having used our eyes and ears, there no denying that he has cleaned Very thoroughly and his soldiers fre carrying away their full camp' equipment, down to bed boards and stools. Ait families of soldiers and ficers have long since been given 2 chance to go to their old homes and most have taken advantage of the opportunity.
the last papers received have been full of sensational Southern successes, it was natural to expect that General Bei would dis count them. He had seen the ame papers but declared that ithe information he had private.
received over the wires contradicted a lot of it. Specifically, his information that General Chang I had not surrendered in Foochow but was still fighting: that the_ Canton troops had not made any! advance, over the Peking-Hankow Railway to Changchow (where the [Lung-Hai crosses the Peking-Hankow line): that it is true that Feng Yuhsiang's army had reached the far western tip of Honan, but that the Christian General himself was still far up in Mongolia.
Sun to Operate Against Fukien no figures as to troops that Chan; sending south, but believed by the' men who are- ordinarily best informed that the Shantung Tuchun is sending down no less than 130,009 men. The same source informs me that Marshal Sun is to conduct the earn paign against Fukien and southern jangsi and Chang Chung-chang is. to assume the offensive, with Kiuki his first objective; that the latter's forees will split at Pengpu where the T. P. R. crosses the Huai River, part going overland and part going on to Pukow and up the Yang-zo. A glance at the map will show] that his programme, if carried out, ill-be a formidable threat to the Canton forces, and if Chang Hsueh.
entries out his advertised com-_
Ivaign down the Peking-Hankow line, [the opposing forees will have abundant opportunity to test each other's: mettle.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.