ANOTHER CHINESE WAR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2067, 15 January 1925, Page 5

ANOTHER CHINESE WAR.

- • —— ATTACK ON SHANGHAI. LOOTING IN NATIVE QUARTER. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) Pekii.g, January 1-1. Some of Cha-ng-Yueu-Ming's troops did considerab lelooting during the past few davs in the native city and the surloundiug villages, but now his army is mostlv interned in the foreign settlement," and Shanghai and its environs are again tranquil. Chih-Suli-Yuan claims to contiol t'he Sbang-Hanam-King "railway as far as Chin-King, and is pushing more forces in that direction. It is reported that Lu-Yhng-Hisiang is dispatching troops from Nanking towards the Chunkang, including two ot Chang-Tso-Lin's Manohurian division. It is worthy of note that Chang-Tso-Lin himself returned to Mukden this week from Tientsin. (News was received on Tuesday that hostilities had again broken out in China. General Sun Chuan-fang was advancing on Shanghai apparently with the object of driving out General Chung-yuan-Ming, who had been appointed' Governor by the reconstructed Pekin Government, llti will be remembered that the recently concluded war came to an end through Marshal Cliaiig-tso-lin, Governor of Manchuria, withdrawing from his attack on Pekin. The rival leaders then compounded their differences, ('hang declaring that he wanted <r<o sec peace and order restored. He thereupon withdrew to his northern principality and it appeared that peace had come. On Wednesday it was cabled that Sun Oman Fang had captured the Shanghai arsenal, and Chang-fnan-ming had taken refuge in ".jhe European settlement. It was declared that the object of Sun and bis ally Chi Hsioh-Yuan was to hold, the provinces of Kiang-su, Anhui, Chikiang and Fukien, and to throw off the control of Pekin.)