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Show CHINA FACES GRAVE CRISIS i j 1 1 Newspapers Urge President to Take Drastic Action Against Rebels j PEKING. China. July 14 A majority major-ity of the Chinese newspapers agree that a grave crisis lias arisen as a rc-mjH rc-mjH of Internal disorders. They urge that parliament ussomble. promptly ,and 'hit Prosident Li Yuan-Hung exercise ex-ercise drastic measures to exterminate tli militarists who are declared selfishly self-ishly to be fomenting trouble with a I view to making th- Pi king guv. rn-m-nt helpless to overthrow them j Promlnenco Is given in the newspa-I newspa-I pers to reports concerning the move- nient for a southern confedracy com- prLs. n to Che-Klang Puklf and Kwang jTung province to consolidate the oppo-ni oppo-ni nts of tho Peking government Re-; Re-; lerrlng to Dr. Sun Yat Sen's refusal ; to leave KWSng Tung the war be-tween be-tween rival militarists of Sze Chwan. the fighting In Klangsl and Chang-Tso i Lin's reviving Btrength in Manchuria, the newspapers unanimously Insist the i risis demands that President LI j Yuan-Hung act without delay. TRAFFIC PAR ULYZED TIEN TSIN. July 10 (Bj th- Associated As-sociated Press ( Chang Tso Un, rebellious re-bellious Manchurlan super-tuchen, still Is holding onto the rolling stock hf took from the railroad lines betw.'..n Peking and .Mukden when he made p ace and retreated northward As this amounts to about 7T. pt rent of the line's available equipment, resumption resump-tion of normal traffic is Impossible despite the more peaceful conditions caused by his withdrawal The situation Is costing the railway $6f. 000 dally In addition to the damage dam-age tho equipment may suffer while it 1h In Chang's hands Tho government hw decided upol drastic action. All foreign employes of tlie railroad, most of whom are British subjects, will be recalled to WlUiin the great Chinese wall, which would remove then from the sphere of Chang's Influence. SUBJECT TO PENALTY It Is expected that any who refuse to obey the recall will be dealt with under a British order In council which mages liable to deportation of any British subject participating in any re- i belllon against China. Tho offoct of this withdrawal of employes em-ployes probably will bo to paralyze the Operation of the railway north of the1 great wall In which region alone Chang retains Influence thereby compelling com-pelling him to abandon his truculent attitude. |