Massacre, Arson, and Cannibalism in Swatow District: Streets Streaming with Blood: String of Deserted Towns now Our Own Swatow, Dee. 3 4
The coup at Canton of course has caused considerable perturbation here, and immediately after it took place it was being freely said that within a week or two, Chang kuei's armies would be marching Into Swatow. Recently, there has been less of this talk, and the un tours of their advance have died, away. Officialdom here plumped without hesitation for General Li.
Two days after the coup, the streets, were placarded with denunciations of the traitorous generals at Cat ton, and the various public bodies have been tumbling over one another allowing this lead. The vaal,, demonstration and procession is to be held in a few days to express the so-called popular sentimer who ede given is to denounce Chang and his associates as Com. munists, and to assert that they are working in ce-operation with the notorious pair of generals, Yoh and Ho, whose attempt to occupy this region came to such a disas-; trous end, The most one can say, about this is that it is at least not improbable. Chang, no doubt, has, his partisans here, though they are not in evidence, and it is significant, that the official newspaper of the Kuomintang has been denounced by fa representative public meeting a8 being on his side, and the arrest of the editor demanded. The troops mostly have been withdrawn from Swatow up the river, to defend the approaches,
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