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Show TOO CHINESE FORCES UNITE Likely to Precipitate Impending Im-pending Changes in Peking Regime PEKING, April 18. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press). Ain'T'e.in diplomatic agents here havo boon informed that a union between Sun Yat Sen, head of the south Chinese government at Canton, and General Chang Tsao Lin. governor of Manchuria, has been effected ef-fected for the purpose of dcfeatlnrr General Wu Pel Fu, leader of central cen-tral Chinese forces This alliance of forces, hitherto opposed. Is considered consid-ered likely to precipitate Impending changes In the Peking government General Wu Pel Fu, regarded as the rno-t powerful military genius In China Chi-na Is rapidly concentrating ."u.000 soldlerx at the Junction of tho Yellow river with the Peking-Hankow railroad. rail-road. He has advanced othor forces in the vicinity of Chill, In which Peking Pek-ing Is, located. Wu Pel Fu s position Is further strengthened by the sudden departure of Gen Tao Kun, military governor of Chi Ll, thus leaving Wu Pel Fu's invasion of tho province unopposed except by Gen. Chang Tsao Lin, Tsao Kun accompanied by the civil governor, gover-nor, supposedly hae gone to Shanghai President Hsu Shih Chang has dispatched dis-patched an envoy to Wu Pel Fu to ascertain the purpose of his military movements northward. EXPLAINS MOVEMENTS. Jacob Gould Shurman. th Amer-can Amer-can minister, has Just returned from a tour of China, corning direct from Mukden. While In Mukden ho received re-ceived Gen Chang Tsao Lln's explanation expla-nation of events. Tho Manchurian government said ho was tending 70 -000 troops from Mukden southward merely to support contemplated changes in the government. His purpose, pur-pose, so he told Mr. Schurman, was to call nt Tien Tsin, or some othr cononlent. city, within ;i month convention of political iind military leaders of the country to form a new government, revise the constitution, summon parliament and elect b president pres-ident acceptable to all factions Ho Kiild Wu Pel Ku would be Invited but that If ho opposed tho p"rpoo 0f such a convention he (Chahg V.suo Lln intPtided to fight. |