The Archive · 1923

Residents Preparing to Leave

Nov. 13.

There was great excitement in Canton Jast night on the receipt of tha news of the fighting near Sheklung. Many of the residents of the eastern suburbs began to move their belongings to the houses of friends in the west, and some members of the families of officials prepared for flight, if necessary, by registering with the leading. hotels under assumed names. Up to four o'clock this afternoon everything wag quiet, and earlier in the day reports from General Headquarters stated that the operations were going in favour of the Constitutionalists. They reported that Gen. Hung Shaolin, one of Gen. Chen Chiung-ming's leading commanders, had been killed.

The Canton-Hongkong telegraphs are stil] interrupted and messages are being carried by special couriers to Hongkong, whence they are forwarded their final destination, A strict. censorship has been established in Canton.—Reuter.

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

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