Urged by Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang to Join in Protest Against New Foreign Loan:
Canton, Oct. 7.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen has received a telegram from Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang urging the Generalissimo to join him and Marshal Chang Tso-tin in 2 protest against Marshal Wu Pei fa pledging the Customs surplus as security for a new foreign loan.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen is at Shaokuan, but the rapid changes in officialdom indicate that he is preparing for his final departure from Kuangtung.
There is x persistent rumour, which is not officially denied, that Dr. Sun may leave on a Soviet! sloop which is due soon at Wham-ea, where the Military Academy and Canton officials will hold a reception in honour of the Soviet Admiral, Street arches have been erected in Canton in honour of the visit. Soviet influence here is very strong.—Reuter's Pacific Service. papers reports, with a considerable degree of caution as to the reliability lof its information, that, before the Jarmy of the "Christian General" left for the front, 3,000 soldiers were baptized. But as it took too much time for them all to be christened individually the ceremony was undertaken upon batches of 50 at a tinie bby means of a fire hose,
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