Evening star., 1928-06-17

| public, has been completed. and SO the
post Of generalissimo automatically
/ lapses The military council will hence
| forth administer all military affairs"
| Chang's energies las civilian head Of
| the Nanking government, take ~ are
henceforth TO be devoted to the prob
lens OF civil reconstruction.
| The precise significance Of this move
l remains to be uncovered. Has Chang
developed cold feet? Does he
acknowledge the supremacy Of Feng
Yu Hsiang?
Yen Hsi Shan, model governor" of
| Shansi has been appointed by the
| Nanking government defense commits
/ sioner for the Peking- -Tientsin area. APP
parently he has undertaken the job
In a spirit OF loyal subordination to
Ranking. On June IL. a deputy COM
missioner Of Yen's received the formal
surrender OF Tientsin from the Ankuo-
chun chiefs still In that town lChang
Tsung Chang and others. The situa-
ton In Tientsin had been causing ner-
vousness to foreign observers. A mob
OF Ankuochun soldiery ESTIMATED as
! high al 10000 had been loudly boast
| ing that II would make fight for 1t,
and. meantime had been looting the
native city In the good old way. A
large body of Feng Yu Hsiang's, troops
tthe Kuominchnn). were near the city.
When, however. formal surrender was
made. the Ankuochun warriors had
| mostly disappeared as such-i. e., they
had exchanged khaki for civilian wear
and were undistinguishably absorbed
In the blue coated mass"
Yen Hsi Shan is at Peking with a
few thousand Shansi troops. His dep
! uty commissioner LIS at Tientsin with A
few thousand Of the same. Apparently
Yen's main army Is In the vicinity OF
Paoting fo0 miles southwest of Pc
king.
Nov what of Feng Yu Hsiang? What
In his relationship 10 the Marking gov
eminent, his attitude toward that gov
ernmcnt7 Is he Loyalty subordinate IN
IT, or does he propose as heretofore, 10
| play the traitor, IN be boss Of the show? ?
A large part of his army fsome reports
say an many ag 100000 Is In the near
vicinity of Peking outnunbering several
times over The Bhansi garrison. Another
large part In In the vicinity of Tientain,
outnumbefing several times over the
Shansi garrison IN that town. What
does Feng prOpoee9 What Is the signifi-
canee Of the following development
When Chang TDo Lin cleared out of
reking, he left In the city detaeh-
ment Of about 200 Manehurians Ia
maintain order pending the arrival of a
shansi garrison at the request Of the
city fathers and Of the representatives
0f the powers. The latter obtained from
Marking approval of the arrangement
and an engagement OF safe conduct for
the detachment home 10 Manchuria
their task completed As the Shansi
troops entered peking by one gate, the
Manchurians twho had done a hand
some job left by another. They were
however, held up, disarmed and im-
pounded by the general commanding
Feng's troops near peking fhe repre-
sentatiyes of the powers protested, but
were truculently febnffed. They next
protested by telegram Ia Marking and
the latter replied that IT had requested
FenR to honor the engagement OF safe.
conduct. Yen fisi Shan teiegraphed
Feng wherever he was) In the same
sense, Al last report Feng has not re.
piled, the MaunchurianA were still i'm.
pounded
" II Is OF what significance II may bs
that the new foreign minister OF tn.