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WHY DID FENGTIEN PEKING DRAWS BREATH ONCE MORE.
COLLAPSET
CHANG TSO LIN "LET 'DOWN" BY HIS SON?
DEFECTIST POLICY,
TYPICAL CIVIL WAR TREACHERY.
SHANSI TROOPS ADMIRABLE IN BEHAVIOUR.
UNCERTAINTY OF FENG XU HSIANG'S INTENTIONS.
They are well equipped, bright- eyed and wiry, execute their move- nints with better form and preci
sion than most Chinese soldiers on the march and are strikingly cheer- ful and friendly,
PEKING, June 13th. Peking is enjoying at the moment a period of relaxatda to which the community feels that it is entitled after the uncertainties and strain
As compared with the Chihli, The collapse and withdrawal of of the past two weeks, writes Mr.
Shantung and Fengtien troops to the undefeated and handsomely Rodney Gilbert in the North China whom we are accustomed the new- kept Fengtien army still has to be Daily News. The entry of Nation-comers are noticeably short and satisfactorily explained, but it will slism, in "the persons of the first sturdy, and the villagers who line the roadsides as they file past look probably be a long while before detachments of very tired and dirty down on them with benign a anyone is prepared to do this with Shansi troops,, is presumed to have proval because they demand noth authority, writes Mr. Rodney Gil-ended at least one phase of the show no truculence and pay bert in the N.-C. Daily News. In greatest bloodless war that has ever along their route in silver and not trifles they want all Chinese circles it is taken for raged around the Metropolis. Thein strange paper as all newly ar granted, however, that Generalis biggest and beat equipped military sime Chang Tao Lin was in conegistered a victory in every encour organization in China, which re way "let down" by his son, Chang ter that it had with its various Hauch Liong, and by Yang Yu enemies, is in full retreat towards Ting, and that some arrangement
Manchuria and the dispirited
which they had with Yen Shih
for whatever
rived soldiers have done in the
for their very modest and decent past. They are great water con sumers in this heat and, in return artitude, the country folk have al- ready paid inexpensive tribute by etting out rows of buckets, which
hansi armor Chin Chum as it they fill up as they see a column is technically known-after having approaching, and into these the been decisively beaten in every co-men dip with their enamelled cups Biet that should be described as a
as they pass. In addition to all battle, has made a victorious entry the ordinary soldier's gear the sense of the much more powerful hand-grenades which stimulate a into. Peking despite even the pre- Shansi men are all draped with and determined. Kuominchun. lot of amusing speculation among
the. rustics.
Shan and the South then came to naught because of Feng Yu Hsiang'a refusal to Abide by it when it was too late to check the retreat and make a stand. Just before hostilities with Sbaasi broke
Best Behaved. Troops Yet Seen, out, it was widely rumoured here The verdict of the country folk
Too Good To Last, that Yang Yu Ting and Chang about Peking is that the Shansi Perhaps the best indication of Hauch Liang were parties to a con-
soldiers are the friendliest and best their character and temper is their behaved troops that have ever come behaviour on the streets and roads. spiracy to force Chang Tso Lin's into this district. They seem utter Ordinarily the Chinese soldier retirement to Manchuria, "nation ly devoid of the swagger that we takes the middle of the highway alize" themselves and the Feng even the best disciplined forces and to give way to anything
have all learned to expect from and is very surly indeed if he has tien army and come to terms with they are so far from being assertren stem to be trained to make as These the other Nationalist groups. This tive that their attitude towards much room for traffic as possible. scheme, according to popular tradi- both foreigners and Chinese seems Motor-cars are evidently a novelty tion, was spoiled by the loyal and evident that instead of being pump when one meets them in a narrow almost apologetic. It is very to their cart and pack mules and conservative commanders who tooked full of inflammatory doctrine roadway there is much havoc in the the father's and not the son's and anti-foreign venom, every ranks, but such occurences elicit no ́orders and dealt with the Shansi soldier has been told that he is ex uspicant remarks.'! invaders of 1927 as enemies instead gentleman and that the success of pected to behave as a perfect of as political demonstrators.
failure of the expedition depends upon the army's reputation.
The commonest Chinese comment behaviour or good intentions, as set upon all reports of Shansi's good forth by the various military, and civil officials who have come in, is that the Shansi régime will not last long-it's too good to last. There seems to be a feeling that decency and moderation are out of keeping with the spirit of the times, that a Shansi administration in the capi- tal is bound to be shortlived-more- ly the pleasant prelude to unlimit ed disquiet and disorder which will commence when the reformers begin to arrive and elbow these amiable mountaineers out of the high places.
....
It is now assumed that the
As the first telegraphic reports younger leaders in the Fenstien have undoubtedly made clear, the group saw in the defëstism that seeped through the ranks after the Shansi commanders did not put withdrawal from, Chaugteh and the their best foot foremost when they Japanese agitation for a withdraw-marched their first battalion into si to Manchuria, a fresh opportu- the westgate of the outer city. In nity to create a situation, in callu deed a sadder military unit, bas sion with Shanai, which would force not tramped into Peking for many Chang Tso Lin's retirement and years. After some months in the that the apparent collapse was car- open, the men were burned black ried out under their orders the and the uniforms were doured idea being that, after Chang Teo and tattered. They were tired Lin had been persuaded to retire and made little effort to preserve to Mukden, the collapse would
a military formation as they come abruptly to an end while shuffed along. In the van came It is the general conviction that Peking was still in Fengtien hands those who could still keep together in spite of all opposition Feng Yu and while it was still possible to and march; behind straggled scores Hsiang is determined to be the form a strong line of defence, of little groups of the footsore and master of Peking and Tientsin in within which the young and "pro-lost their caps and had their heads neither Yen Shih Shan nor Chiang exhausted. Dozens of them had the very near future and that gressive" leaders could assume over night a Nationalist guise and tied up in rags. Some had dis- Kai Shek, will be prepared this announce themselves the local carded the last shreds of their year to resent openly the establish champions and not the enemies of uniforms and shuffled dejectedly ment of a Kuominchun administra the Three Principles,
along in their underwear The tion in Chihli. ponies looked thin and seedy and the equipment shabby. There was the usual very large element of de- crepit old men and of half-grown boys
During the last few days of May and the first two days of June it seems likely that Chang Teo Lin was the only man in Peking who did not know that his armies were in full retreat and that he would have to return to Mukden. He was persuaded to believe, that the lines on the Kin-Has railway were being shortened to strengthen the ccatre at Hochien, where Sun Chuan Fang had either collapsed again or was preparing to repent his usual per- formance. Weeks before this he was aware that his son and his won's "modernist "colleagues were not putting the heart into their too much for them. campaign which their military strength warranted and Peking was diverted with a story of how the
The most amusing feature of this pathetic display was the consterna tion on the faces of the hundreds of student delegates from various schools and colleges, with flags na big as bed sheets and badges pinned all over them, who went out to meet the "victorious" beroes. Most of then had just seen Pao Yu Lin and his crack unit march snappily away and the contrast: was apparently
Feng The Most Powerful. of ammunition and other essential Shansi is impoverished and short supplies. The Nanking expedition Japanese barrier on the railway at is crippled in the North by the Tainaafu. Fengtien can be safely eliminated for at least a year and no one believes that the Wa-Han folk dare make war north of the Yellow River even if Feng, resigna Honan to them without opposition. There is nothing therefore to pre- vent Feng Yu Haiang from break- ing faith with his allies here in the North wbile voicing the sturdiest adherence to the Three Principles, posing as a pillar of
obedient servant. The next pros- he is Nanking's loyalist and most the Kuomintang and insisting that.
Chang's face when he explained that have since elapsed, thousands when all the other Nationalists felt dilatory procedure by saying that of Shansi troops have either enter strong enough to denounce Feng as the army was tired of the campaigned the city or taken up quarters rebel and a Red; to oust him and wanted an understanding within the neighbouring barracks who from the coveted capital. the enemy. He was then quoted Ba@saying that if the army lacked would compare favourably
with This is not the writer's prognos- spirit, the responsibility lay with
any soldiers in North China who tication, but a very general and its spiritless leaders.
had just come to the end of a pro- naturally gloomy conviction
Cheerful And Friendly. showing was necessary has not yet Just why this very miserable
even
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Monday, July 2nd It would appear, however, that no one had the courage to tell him was being "let down" until some time on Sutar- day, June 2nd, the day before he announced his departure. Even then he evidently had enough con adence lett in his son and his son's eclleagues to believe that they would excoute an orderly and well covered withdrawal and suspected neither that they were conniving with his enemies to "nationalize
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The Dream Shattered, Chang Tao Lin left Peking after midnight on Monday, June 4th, and arrived on the outskirts of Mukden early on Tuesday morning where his carriage was so thoroughly and scientifically bombed. It was dur ing that same Tuesday (June 5th), before the news of the assassins tion reached Peking that the news lenked out through a dozen chan- nels that, with the old man gone, there was no urgent need for the departure of the younger leaders and that they might not, indeed, go at all."..
tracted campaign in the field and throughout the Chinese as well as ang marches in the trying heat, the foreign community.
CINEMA NEWS.
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Shek and Yon Shih Shan, when the further news went around that the agreement had been cancelled be mined opposition. cause of Feng Yu Hsiang's deter- According to subsequent additions to the account Yang Yu Ting came into possession of a telegram from one Nationalist
Twelve Miles Out" is camp, to another, in which it was pointed out that since the young adaptation of a stage success based Fengthen leaders had retreated too on the war between the revenue far to set up a business-like de service and rum-runnerá fence against Feng Yu Hsiang, and Gilbert has a different role to any since Feng seemed determined to he has hitherto taken and appears igre all understandinge with sa gay, dashing young dare devit Yang Yu Ting, it behoved the who is cheated of his sweetheart Shaasi and other nationalists to by the leader of a smuggling gang. ignore the agreement also and fore. Joan Crawford and Ernest Tor- stall Feng to Peking.
rence play the other two important. In something of a panic, the cular detail impossible on the stage roles. In the picture, much specia- Fengtien conspiratore wired to Yen has been added including the race Shih Shan and saked for an explana between rum-runners and revenue tion and received reply which men, an elaborate dancing spectacle they considered evasive enough to which takes place in a night club, be very alarming. That same day and other dramatic incidents, came the newe of the bombing of Chang Teo Lin's train and evidence that both the Shanai armies and Han Fu Chu's Kuominchun were The Juvenile eccentric dancers, racing towards the capital. All Feagtien guards were down and it Bliss Cherie Valentine and Mins was too late to organize a defence Tomarita Birdwell, will appear so that the watched conspirators mightly until Saturday at the 9,20 took to their motor-care and P.m. performances in a complete
change of programme.
It had scarcely been clearly under stood that they proposed to remain in Peking on the heads of a nation alized Fengtien, army, by virtue of agreement with Chiang Kai (Continued on next Column). bolted
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