The Archive · 1927

A Clean Sweep

It is stated that Messrs. Tai Tin chow and Shu Chia-hua, respectively president and vice-president of Chung Stian University, have quit that institution and now are sojouriing in the Colony, and all the important officials in' Canton who held office by grace of the Chekiang lord have left Canton, The now warlord, Chang Fa-kuei, is a bitter enemy of Chiang Kai-shek and has nominated his own men to replace those appointed by Chiang.

Hongkong watches with consider able interest the changes in Kuangtung since the return of the "Iron Soldiers" of "Chang Fa-kuei, who has ousted Gancral Li Teal-hsin, his former chief, as the leading military ruler in Canton. Chang dislikes Li because the Intter was so shrewd as do be friendly—at least outward-Iy—with every side, Li now a mere figurehead, with Chang a8 the real boss. Chang suid he took a prominent part in the Northern Fapedition, and, now that Marshal Wu Pei-fu and Marshal Sun Chuaafang have been kicked out, Chang and his men have returned to take a rest in Canton, where the roar of guns in the Yangtze ov else where cannot be heard. 'The plain truth seem' to be that Kuangtung yields an annual revenue of $100, 000,000, which no doubt proves tractive to any man commanding troops.

Although Li Tsai-hsin has more soir, they are out Ame Yel

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