The Archive · 1920

KUANGTUNG'S RISE AGAINST! KUANGSI OPPRESSION

By a Cantonese

Telegrams have been pouring into Shanghai during the past few weeks reporting various "'victories" won by one party and "heavy defeats inflicted upon the enemy" by the other party in Kuangtung. Those of us who have been following the situation closely would probably understand the meaning of these communiques, but] to those who have not been following it, it has proved itself another Chinese puzzle. How many readers have any idea of who's who and what's what down in the most progressive, most enlightened, most harshly' subjected, and yet the most '"Irish-Mexican" province of China?

We have read of the determined attack that General Chen Chuing-ming is now leading against the so-called Kuangsi militarists who have invaded Kuangtung and for the past three years have been exercising control over the province,

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

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