The Archive · 1923

Yunnanese the Key to the Position

Peking, Nov. 15.

Telegrams received from Canton since yesterday say that it was the Yunnanese who occupied Waichow. After taking Sheklung Gen. Chen -Chiung-ming rapidly pushed on towards Canton, while Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Kuangtung forces fell back on the city and took up a position on the hills to the north near Canton with their eastern flank touching the city.

A message received this morning says that Gen. Chen's army is within 18 miles of Canton," where panic prevails, The telegram do not give an: explanation regarding the separation of Dr. Sun's Kuangtung and Yunnanese® forces' unless an

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