mingtang Disarmed Canton, Jan, 20.
Cantonese politics have. assumed a very different aspect with the arrival of the Yunnan and Kuangsi troops and the return of the Kuo mingtang Party under Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
The vanguards of the Cheng Hsueh Hui, led by Mr. Lin Cheng-hsun, a former speaker of the Kvuangtung Provincial Assembly, arrived at Canton at the same time us the Yunnan and Kuangsi troops and are now taking an active part in local affairs. Through the Kuangsi forces, they have already seized the Kuangtung Arsenal and the Kuangtung Mint and have taken a hand in the control of the Canton-Samshui and the Kuangtung Yueh-Han Railways. The Salt Commission has also gone into the hands of commanders favourable to the Cheng Hsueh Hui.
In order to lessen the influence of the Kuomingtang, the numerous companies of the so-called Punitive Army are being disarmed by the Yunnan-Kuangsi troops. Even the regular armed police of the leading magistracies in Canton, the Namhoi and the Punyu, have been subjected to interference by the non-Cantonese troops. For the present, the recognized local leaders of the Cheng Hsueh Hui in Kuangtung, Kuangsi and Yunnan are Gen. Tsen Cheng-hsun, a former Viceroy of the two Kuangs and adininistrative director of the Military Government; Mr, Yang Yung-tai, 2 former Civil Governor of Kuangtung; and Gen. Li Kan-yuan, former Civi, Governor of Shensi and a former commander of the Yunnanese Army in Kuangtung. For convenience and to avoid an open breach with the followers of Dr, Sun Yat-sen, the Cheng Hsueh Hui political party. here will outwardly regard Dr. Sun Yat-sen as the President of the Constitutionalist Government, or, at least, as a political chief of some sort. Dr. Sun's partisans are not unaware of a rival power—one which suceessfully prevented them from finding a "foothold in Canton before the summer of 1920.
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