| Show MANCHURIA CHIEF IS SE NC PO VE MARTIAL LAWS NOW PREVAILS IN CHINESE CITY AS FACTIONS FACTIONS FAC FAC- COME TO BLOWS Word Coming From Mukden Indicates Once Strong Power Of Leader Is Rapidly Crumbling Away I Peking Although the resumption of telegraphic communication with Mukden failed to bring confirmation of ot reports of the overthrow and im- im of ot Marshall Chang TeeLin Tso- Tso Lin the Manchurian dictator it appears appears appears ap ap- pears definitely esta established bUshed that the power ower of the Manchurian chieftains chieftain Is s crumbling Martial laws prevails in Mukden and while Chang appears to be still In n commend of events In the city his chief lieutenant General Yang YuTing Yu- Yu Ting former governor of ot is to have fled tied to Dairen having been held responsible for the driving of at the Manchurian forces back from Shanghai and the river The crumbling of the Mukden leaders leader's leaders leader's leaders leader's lead lead- ers er's authority is said to be due dua to disapproval disapproval dis dis- approval by various factions among Ills his followers of the tho Chang Tso Tso-Lin's desire to extend his influence outside of Manchuria and to fight for the retention re- re Mention of Shantung province against the invaders pressing him from the south and west those of the tho governor Sun Fang Chaun-Fang and the Honan governor Yueh Shun Wei-Shun re reo His determination to make this stand threatened to embroil him with the Christian general Fang Yu who from his headquarters I tors at has bas been watching tho the development of the situation At this stage two of Chang's most Influential Int followers General Kuo Sung Sung-Lian commander of ot the Tenth division and General LI ChIng Ling civil governor of province are understood to have havo telegraphed Chang Tso LIn that if he and Yang Yu Ting would retire from leadership there would be a chance for preserving the unity of the Manchurian party Otherwise Other wise they said the responsibility for developments must rest with Chang and Yu Vu This Is Interpreted as a threat that l Kuo and LI Lt would form an alliance with one of Chang Tso Tso-Lin's opponents eats either Marshal Wu Fu Pel-Fu head of the alliance or Feng Yu Yu- Hsiang I Kuo's nos plan is reported to have been to replace Chang Tso Tso Tso-LIn by the latter's lat lat- ter's son lion Chang Hsueh Liang Re Re- orders from Chang Tso LIn to return with his command to Mukden Kuo appears to have become doubtful O 01 or ma 1119 caters calet-a intentions concerning him and decided to revolt It H Is not likely that he Is anywhere near Mukden Mukden Muk Muk- den since it is believed that Manchurian Man Man- troops loyal to Chang have cut the Peking Peking-Mukden Mukden railway above miles milE's northeast of Tien tsin Lain to prevent the northward movement movement move move- ment of hostile forces There appears appears ap pears to have e been fighting in lu that region Lt between various arlous factions of the Chang armies Two hundred tourists mostly Amer leans who were landed from the world the liner at nt arrived here on a n special train their Journey journy from ao on the coast northeast of having Ing been without in cid eat All three of the main lines running out of Peking the Peking Peking-Mukden railway to tJ the north the lukow railroad to the southeast and the tho Peking Peking railway to the southwest appear to have been cut I Germany Swept By Blizzard Berlin Heavy Berlin Heavy blizzards accomplished by high winds have swept many parts of Germany seriously Interfering interfering in In- with wire communications throughout the tho t country t At Nord Nord- delch i Russia Hussla 1 the three newly constructed constructed con con- main masts of ot the h radio station sta tion each meters high were blown down by the storm Heavy falls ot of snow are reported from the Bavarian highland and the Dlack Black for tor forest est eft regions |
