The Archive · 1927

Has Begun to Disintegrate

Fro Que Own Contrsraxoext

Peking, Oct. 1.

'Southern Kuangtung is once more facing change and disruption. For! two years the local forces of the! 'Nationalist army have been able to hold the robbers and other bad jeharacters' in check, but with the general disintegration of the party the old members of Tang Poon-yan's army who were driven out with the coming of the Nationalists are ro-exerting themselves with the object of grasping the power of what was once known as the Pat Shuk. In the Lingshan and Yamehow districts the robbers have become so numerous and are committing so many: outrages that almost all the main roads have become impassable, few daring to face the danger of travel.

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

Your account