Show CHUM CHINA IS TO UY DOWN HER ARMS INTERIOR OF CHINA BEGINNING TO SHOW EFFECTS OF RE CENT conference chiefs of provi province n ca notify pekin gov crement that they are ready to abandon their military power to assist soldiers peking the washington conference on limitations of armaments Is beg beginning inning to influence affairs in interior china many tuc huns or military governors of provinces have nc notified the poking peking government flint they are ready to abandon their military power and to assist in the tha Us ills ban dment of cainas chinas soldiers although the sincerity of the tha offer Is questioned by somo some of the chinese press the agitation la Is regarded ns as beneficial because the chinese people are aroused by the abuses of the tu chitin system almost all of chinas cainas evils civil strife economic disorder political disunion poverty famine and foreign gues are attributed III dt or IndIrect indirectly fy to local autocratic power exercised by tho the provincial governors go erners during tile the washington conference said general yen the powers passed resolutions urging the redaction of armaments by all countr countries fes the existing dangerous conditions in chinn china do not permit any procrastination on our part in to me drastic disbandment ban dment of the superfluous soldiers in the various provinces in ancient china the soldiers sold lera were farmers and peasants so that china was an armed nation now the troops are enlisted from the people who have bave no regular occupations general yen esth at disarmament must concur with some scheme tt that will provide jobs for or the discharged soldiers otherwise he says the men will resort to banditry general lu yun aslang of the oho cho klang kiang announcing his intention to abandon his military authority 1 said aid ever bever since the end of ih the world war tile tha nations have been considering the question of di disarla sarma befit after considering the foreign situation anil and our own internal troubles bles I 1 have concluded that those who set themselves against this movement will be ruined the of province general gislao yno yao nan announces the abolition of his fits but declares lie he will remain at the head of ills his army to administer tile the pro vince ince commenting upon a possibility that the may abandon their titles without relinquishing the power tho the peking shu rao pao suggests that foreign powers might supervise i the disband ment this paper says tile the author tty ity of the poking government will nav never extend beyond tha tho walid walls of the city unless tile kuchun system 13 3 abandoned A real abolition of tile tha may inny not lo he 10 obtained ned unless tho the friedly foreign governments realize tile the situation in china and olter financial assistance on oil condition that the chinese troops le ile disbanded under tho the islon of delegates from tile the powers |