New Britain herald., 1924-08-29
CHINESE WAR IS
 IMMINENT TODAY
Various Factions About Ready
 to Fly to Arms
sy n. A.,ssi.tsa Press.

shanghai. Aug, ss.-The spayl
 iSnitinE sll China in open warfar.
 vas seen today In the impsndins
 eonhiet in the eastern portions et
 Hianssu province in which Chi.
 ehish.fuan, the aggressor. expect,
 to drive aut his rival. Lu Ynng.
 HslanE. Tuchun Of chekiang prov,
 tnee, who has ruled the eontested section of kiangsu province since
 his appointment under the denosed Anfu party as Tnehun or cheklane province. Lu retained his power af- ter the overthrow Of the Anfus, said 10 bs the pro-Japanese party in China in 1919.
 General Wu Fei-Fu. who has rul- cd as a military power in China, since he defeated the armies of Marshai Chang Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchuria in 1922, has ordered his troops from chihli province. where Peking Is located. to the aid of Chi ehish-Yuan. It is believed that any weakening of General wu's chihli position would furnish Chang Tso- Lin his long awaited opportunity to move southward again against Pe- king. an expedition for which he has been preparing since his defeat two years ago.
 Sun Yat-scn . Factor
 Another factor in the marshaling of forces In this resion Is Sun Yat- Sen. president of the southern gov Ant A rFhA alt t.t armies have been weakened by long, continued local conflicts In the vicin- ity of Canton, is regarded as a sur- porter of Lu Ying- g-Hsiang.
 An inspection of the Quinsan sec- ten, whose inhabitants fled to the foreign sections here with other refugees from the war zone, reveals preparations for fighting on a huge scale.
 Twenty-Five thousand troops have already been centered on Quinsan, including artillery and machine gun divisions and fighting is expected to break out momentarily as the op- posing armies are within five miles of each other.
 General Ho Feng-Ling, military governor of the Shanghai -sunlsiang di,trict,. today estimated that 10000 additional troops are scattered over points between Woosung and shang- hal up to Nansiang, where the op- posing forces are expected to clash also.
 Many of General Wu Pei-Fu's troops have been sent from Pao- tingfu to join with the forces of Chi Shiehhuan at Ranking while so,ooO troops, in addition to those in the var zone. are being sent from chihli province.
 Basis of Conflict
 The immediate basis for the con- nct iB contained in charges by Chi shieh- Yuan that his rival, Lu Yung- u' ., violated peace treaty sign ~. two years ago by the Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces, by harbor- lAg and accepting support from two military leaders lately expelled by the northern forces with which Chi is aligned.
 Chi says his single aggressive pur- pose irl the impending conflict is to capture the Shanghai Sungkiang dis t1ict. His immediate aim is the capture of the Lungwha arsenal. two miles south of Shanghai and forts 20 miles down the Whangpoo liver from Shanghai. Chi will move overland against Shanghai, he says, .aking the outskirts of the city, at he same time attacking Woosung y sea and land.
 Naval Warning A warning issued to naval authori- les to all crafts advising against lScending the Whangpoo river to- yard, Shanghai between sunset and unrise, is expected to have the ef- sct of bringing concentration of all E oreign warcraft here. The situation in foreign Chinese commercial circles is described as distinctly uneasy" and is reflected ! the fall in value of some Chinese anknotes and runs on several of As banks. With war preparations on in full last on both sides, trains are still unning on the Shandhai- -Nanking Ailway. although the schedules are regular because of the confusion.