Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-16 | Page 8 | Civil War for China Imminent

I". 'CIVIL WAR FOB i HljiENTj Forces of Rival Military Governors Gov-ernors Clash in Railroad Town i SHANGHAI, China, April 5. Seri-t ous disturbances have occurred in the; l province oC Honan and civil war is Imminent, Im-minent, according to advices received by Chinese offcinls here. The situation situa-tion is the result of a chanpo of i tuchuns, or military governors In the province by the Poking government It was announced recently that Gcn-, Gcn-, oral Wu Kwnn Heln, former inspector-general of the upper Yangtso provinces, pro-vinces, had been appointed tuchun In f Honan (o succeed General Chao Ti. , Murmurs against the appointment were at once heardr and after open i threats had been voiced, by military I subordinate of the Honan incumbent, an open clash between troops of General Gen-eral Chao Ti and those of the appointees, ap-pointees, General Wu, occurred at San Yang Chow, on the Peking-Hankow j railway General Wu's troops are scatiercd through then orthcrn part of I the province in a way calculated to I bottle up those of tho tuchun he Is seeking to rcplaco with tho authority 1 mated in Shanghai that General Wo commands about 40,000 troops, while , General Chao TI not many more than I half that number.