The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06
GOVERNMENT
OF CHINA TO
Be CHANGED
Sweeping Governmental Shift
Today Follows Success of
General Wu-Pei-Fu in Win
ming Peking.
ABOUT OVER
tBy Associated Press.) }

mental changes followed today the !
success of General We Pei-Fu in win |
ming the military mastery at Peking. |
President Hsu Shih-Chang issued a
mandate dismissing Premier Liang
Shih-Yi and ordering his arrest.
Prime Minister Chang Hu and Min
lister of Communication Yeh Kung-Oho
also were dismissed and their arrest
was ordered.
General Chang Tso-Lin the Manchu
leader defeated by WI Pei-Fu in the
campaign just ended, is dismissed
from his office of inspector general
of Manchuria
Premier Liang Shih-Yi, who is now
in TienTsin where he has been on
leave for several months, is charged
with conniving with Chang Tso-Lin
10 promote civil war.
TIENTSIN, May 6. = General WI
Pei-Fu, victor in the civil war which
now appears to be at an end, is. re-
ported to be at Huangstun, on the
| Peking Tientsin railway about ten
miles south of the capital. where ho
went yesterday afternoon from Feng-
| tai.
The retreat of General Chang Tso-
Lin's forces appears to be nearly at
its end, except on the Tientsin-Pukow
| line where it is estimated from 10000
to 10000 men still remain in the vicin-
/ ity of Machang Orders for these men
to evacuate have been received ac-
! cordig to Chinese reports.
PEKING. May 6.-China's civil war
appears to have ended with the flight
of General Chang Tso-Iin toward Muk-
den, and the recognition by the Peking
t government of General WI Pei-F'u as
master of the military situation.
| Chang Tso-Lin, who brought 100, 900
troops south of the great wall is be-
lieved to have abandoned any idea of
offering organized resistance. His
flight was hurried. He had proceeded
to Loafa along the Peking-Tien-Tsin
railway with view to directing op-
erations around the capital when he
learned of the defeat there and fled
leaving his .disergenMed troops to fol-
low as best they could.
Half of Chang's army is roaming the
country between Peking and TienTsin,
all trying to reach the latter place
or a point northward on the Mukden
railroad A message received from
Tien Tsin by official channels last
night said thousands of soldiers were
Iobserved outside the city on their way
i east.
:. Capture Difficult.
The military attaches here learn
that WI Pei-Fu sent a force to attempt
and disarm the retreating army, but
it is not believed possible to cap
ture many of the widely scattered
troops.
The Peking gendarmerie disarmed
| II 900 of Chang Tso-Lin's soldiers out
side the city walls. WI Pei-Fu is said
to have paid each of the men ten
dollars for the expenses of his trip
home.
Peking, after witnessing battles
) just outside its walls for the last
; five days remains free of the pres
J ence of large bodies of troops from
either side. No foreigner was hurt
| while inside the walls and the prop.
) erty of foreigners was reported as re-
spected.
/ An accurate estimate of the casual
ties can not be obtained at this time
| but $500 dead or wounded were
counted near, Tien Tsin alone. For
eign doctors said there were similar
casualties at Fengtai.
TIEN TSIN, May 6.-Chang Tso
Lin's defeat is fast becoming de
bacle Hords of Fengtien soldiers are
I passing through Tien Tsin some cling
ing to the outsides of the overcrowdet
railway cars and motor truck and fill
: ing all available space on the locomo
, tives.
Gen. Chang Tso-Lin left his head
! quarters at Chunliangcheng presum
! ! ably for Mukden early today.
I Among the refugees are elements o
the % division from Langfang VIII
: have not been in action. This i:
u thought to indicate that the 2Sth divi
i sion across the Hun river has been lef
to its fate.
The troops passing through Tie
| Tsin are orderly, and are being sup
, | piled with tea or water by the loca
police. Tonight is expected to be tn
: critical period of tie rout and BIRTHS
Q volunteers were modified this after
= noon for the protection of the foreigI
u colony.
o An allied military train was pre-
L pared to proceed toward Peking an
T. reopen communication with the caI
y ital.
: SHANGHAI, May Dedicated Fer
tien forces from the southern front g
> Machang. and the northern fightin
D area are pouring through Tien Tsin t
u ward Chunliangcheng, from whic
& their leader, Gen Chang Tso-Lin.
reporttd to have Withdrawn, seekin
20 reorganize his army.
Reports from Tien Tsin say the raj
road yards there are choked wit
troops, trains jammed with soldier
v 200 to each car. Following five trail
l loads last night, it was estimated t
day that 5000 men had passed throug
with 10000 more in the railroad yard
DC The troops from the northern frol
~ are disheartened, and say they hay
rS fighting for three days without foe
20 at Fengtai and Langfang. They a.
anxious to return to Mukden.
- The men are still heavily armed, bl
~ are maintaining discipline, showir
- no tendency toward looting or disc
- -. der. The Tien Tsin authorities, ho'
a. ever, are guarding the railroad yart
- refusing to permit the troops to lea1
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