Evening star., 1925-11-22

uniforms with red Arm hands. After
some pa lsver they led ns 10 the head
quarters Of their commander. In A
long. low farm house ct the rear Of
the village
THE brigade comma nder wss a
stout. uncouth person. who made
a great show of receiving us heartily.
Who was he? a colonel OF Cha ng Tso-
Inns Manchurisn army, who could
show these puny inside the pass" men
how to hght. tOutside-the- pa as and in
side I hepass-at the Great Wall-have
connotations equivalent TO ''on the
frontier" and in civilization" with
us)
What was his intention? Orders
We're Ia march on Pekins tonight. wip-
ing mp the last ARfu contingent at
Nan Yuan on the way. Eut what of
WI rei-fu. whose van was slrea ~
before Nan Yuan and who desired 10
keep troops out Of Peking? He had NO
instructions about WI. Orders were
orders
n desired 10 know more | would
have to consult the Big Chief who
was At Tientsin-or his held general
and cousin by. ma rriase. Chang Dzo-
hsiana. who. by the way. was eX-
pected AT the Chanssindien railroad
station with A train Of reinforce me nj e
brought from Manchuris over the
little cross-line connecting this town
with Fenstai on the Fekins- -Mukden
railway.
All right, We would ask Chang DZo-
hsia ns. Gallopine back At imminent
peril of being pitched into the mud
Of the road, we turned our ponies
over to our chauffeur. jumped into
| our car and drove like mad for the
station. Chang Dzo-hsia ne's train had
switched of several third.class freight
| cars full of troops and was just start
ing back toward Fengtai with some
sleepers and parior car which we
guessed 10 he the quarters Of the
field aaff
We were determined not to lose the
eliminating interview OF the day with
the Fengtien lMukden general. ]
drove across the track and purposely
stalled my engine sguerely in front
OF the slowly moving locomotive. The
train hraked To standstin. Guards
swarmed down and surrounded us
menacinEly.
Clark and ] ducked through them
and made for the generals coach. We
eot halfway into the perlor car be
fore the guards stopped us. BY that
| time Chang Dzo-hsiane himself saw
us. and. his curiosity aroused came
| forward. He was a handsome fellow
big Estatured. dressed for comfort in
trousers and tunic OF the peculiar
burnt gauze."
Your cards" he asked
We handed them over.
What. Newspaper men? You stop
my train just TO ask news" His big
| face glowered down At us.
II beg your pardon. Da Rem" C'great
| man.. ! said. for the manner ir
which we have appros YOU. But
We are riskine our faces. and perha ps
our safety. for something infinitely
more important than mere curiosity
We. foreigners and Chinese alike. have
heen imprisoned In the walls OF the
| ca pitsl for two weeks in the greatest
while you outside here have been hav.
ing your little fun.
Your comma nder behind the villa &c
there has just informed me that his
orders are to march directly upon
Peking. II you plan to All Pekine
with your rough fellows. or perhaps
start another war by marching over
Wu's head. we and the people of Pc
king would like to know ii and the
diplomatic corps would be greatly in
terested-and perha pa concerned"
Chinese-or Russia MS. whom the Man.
churian troops had become accustomed
to maltreat-we would undoubtedly
have been sent to the wall. After
ponderins ansriiy q moment, Chang
| replied:
I'VE are to prepare the way for Gen
Chang Tso-lin, who. with Tuchun
Tsao Kun. will enter Peking and as
sist the President TO re.ests blish the
Ant .
know nothing about his intentions. II
he stays where he is, there need be no
trouble. and IT will not be necessar ry
for many OF our soldiers to enter the
city. You may tell your minister
this
He turned to his aides. Start the
,, train
WE bowed ourselves out and got of
w the already moving train. Our
car. which had been pushed of the
track none too gently by the guards
had rolled down into ditch. With
the assistance Of some nearby donkey
men we got it out and drove back to
Gen. Wu's headquarters.
| He was expecting us. and served tea
and crackers. which were very wei
come. for we were starved. well
what do you make OF it," he asked
Seems to me that Chang Tso.lin is
all set to Appropriate the fruits OF
your victory I said. unless you are
ready to fight another war"
Not now. But you can see how
things are turning. can't you? The
Anfus are not the only schemers"
"Wfn you 60 to Pekine?" 1 asked
mo. / have outfitted my troops h,
capturing Anfu supplies. If ! an
era nted enough money to nav then,
will withdraw and drill them aga.ns,
a further exigency.'
We started hack painfully and witt
many narrow escapes. We made ou
way past Yuan's country seat. nov
deserted. to the edge Of the militar,
preserve. Here an Anfu sentry chai
lenged us.
What did you see?" he asked, wher
we explained our presence.
We gave away enough military in
formation to rival camps that nigh