NATIONALIST FLAGS FLYING OVER PEKIN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6630, 8 June 1928, Page 8

NATIONALIST FLAGS FLYING OVER PEKIN

Capital Reported in Hands of Southerners RUMOURS OP CHANG’S . DEATH UNFOUNDED United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 7.15 p.m. SHANGHAI, June 6. Yen Hsi-shan, Governor of Shansi, has entered Fekin, The Shansi Army is encamped on the outskirts of Pekin awaiting complete evacuation by Chang Tso-lin’s troops. Nationalist flags are flying in the capital.

Colonel Doihara, the Japanese adviser to the Pekin Government, visited Marshal Chang Tso-lin’s residence at Mukden last evening, and reports that Chang’s condition is satisfactory. The rumours of death are unfounded. Tho Mukden armies arc rapidly retreating toward Manchuria. An earlier message from Shanghai stated: Though official confirmation is lacking, there are strong rumours that Marshal Chang Tso-lin succumbed from injuries received when his train ryas bombed at Mukden. The greatets secrecy is being observed at the Marshal’s home. Strength to the rumour is lent from the fact that urgent telegrams wcr» sent to members of tho family sum moning, them homewards. Received Friday, 12.54 a.m.

There has been no communication with Pekin to-day. The situation around Tientsin is disquieting, retreating soldiery robbing shops for food, and civilians for clothes as a disguise. General Chang Chung-chang decided to defend Tientsin to the last ditch though in view of the prevalent disorder not much is expected. PATROLS MAINTAIN ORDER. , British Official Wireless. RUGBY, June 6. Pekin service telegrams report that order is being maintained and that tho city is being patrolled by local gendarmes under General Pao-Yu-lin, who w r as deputed to perform this task by the outgoing Governmcnti A committee of older statesmen in the city has telegraphed to the three Southern leaders, Chang, Yen, and Feng requesting that, until arrangements hav requesting that, until arrangements have been made to hand over the city, Pao-Yu-lin should be allowed to continue these duties undisturbed and then withdraw with his men. The doyen of the Diplomatic Corps sent a request on similar lines to the three Southern leaders. ..Passenger and good trains to Pekin and Tientsin are interrupted through troop movements.