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Show MANCHURIA CHIEF IS LOSEING POWER MARTIAL LAWS NOW PREVAILS IN CHINESE CITY AS FACTIONS FAC-TIONS COME TO BLOWS Word Coming From Mukden Indicates Once Strong Power Of Leader Is Rapidly Crumbling Away Peking. Although the resumption of telegraphic communication with Mukden failed to bring confirmation of reports of the overthrow and im-prinsonment im-prinsonment of Marshall Chang Tso-Lin, Tso-Lin, the Manchurian dictator, it appears ap-pears definitely established that the power of the Manchurian chieftain is crumbling. Martial laws prevails in Mukden and, while Chang appears to be still in commend of events in the city, his chief lieutenant, General Yang Yu-Ting, Yu-Ting, former governor of Kiangsu, is repored to have fled to Dairen, having been held responsible for the driving of the Manchurian foroes back from Shanghai and the Yangtse river. The crumbling of the Mukden leader's lead-er's authority is said to be due to disapproval dis-approval by various factions among his followers of the Chang Tso-Lin's desire to extend his influence outside of Manchuria and to fight for the retention re-tention of Shantung province against the invaders K pressing him from the south and west, those of the Chekiang governor, Sun Chaun-Fang, and the Honan governor, Yueh Wei-Shun, respectively. re-spectively. His determination to make this stand threatened to embroil him with the "Christian general," Fang Yu-Hsiang, who from his headquarters headquar-ters at Kalgin, has been watching the development of the situation. At this stage two of Chang's most influential followers, General Kuo Sung-Lian, commander of the Tenth division, and General Li Ching Ling, civil governor of Shihli province, are understood to have telegraphed Chang Tso-Lin that if he and Yang Yu-Ting wrould 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. This is interpreted as a threat that Kuo and Li would form an alliance with one of Chang Tso-Lin's opponents, oppon-ents, either Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, head of the Yangtse alliance, or Feng Yuj Hsiang. " Kuo's plan is reported to have been to replace Chang Tso-Lin by the Iat-ter's Iat-ter's son, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Receiving Re-ceiving orders from Chang Tso-Lin to return with his command to Mukden. Kuo appears to have become doubtful of his chief's intentions concerning him and decided to revolt. It is not likely that he is anywhere near Mukden, Muk-den, since it is believed that Manchurian' Man-churian' troops loyal to Chang have cut the Peking-Mukden railway above Peitaiho, 150 miles northeast of Tientsin, Tien-tsin, to prevent the northward movement move-ment of hostile forces. There appears ap-pears to have been fighting in that region between various factions of the Chang armies. Two hundred tourists, mostly Americans, Amer-icans, who were landed from the round-the-world liner Carinthia at Chinawangtao, arrived here on a special train, their journey from Chinwantgao' on the coast northeast of Tientsin having been without incident. in-cident. All three of the main lines running out of Peking, the Peking-Mukden railway to the north, the Tientsin-Pukow Tientsin-Pukow railroad to the southeast, and the Peking-Hankow railway to the southwest appear to have been cut. |