The Archive · 1926

{|THE DIVIDED STATE OF HUNAN

Wu Pei-fu's General in Changsha: Dignity of the Old City Sadly Impaired Prom Our Own "Comesroxoent Changsha, May 18, Gen. Ye Kai-hsing arrived in Changsha on Friday, May 7, by train about "7 T have been waiting for him to do something before troubling your readers. with the merely insignificant fact of the arrival of a general. For Ye tentatiously proclaims that he comes as a general and not as a military] governor of any kind. Such proclamations as he has issued are concerned with the affairs of the Sed Division of which he is the genral, and not of the province, of which he says he is not the governor. Moreover he has made his headquarters at his old place ju the front of the Tseng Memorial Temple and not in any of the buildings associated in recent years with the centre of provincial government. What is still more important is that] he is apparently making no attempt} to form a provincial government.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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