New Chairman Appointed to Provincial Government 'A startling piece of news is received from Nankinig to the effect that Gen. Chen Ming-hsu has been place of the well known Marshal Li Chi-sen, who has proved so able Governor.
This is a political bombshell coming, as it does, immediately upon the departure of Marshal Li Chi-sen from Nanking. General Chen has been associated with Marshal Li in the government of the province, but hho is also one of General Chian Kai-thek's most intimate friends.
The appointment is regarded direct challenge to the power of the Kuangsi faction in Kuangtung. of which. province General Chen is native, There is at present no outstanding leader of the Kuangsi faction in Nanking. Each of the four leaders of this group is now back with his own troops, Huang Shao-bung in Kuangsi, Marshal Li Chi-sen Kuangtung, General Li Chung-jen in Hankow and General Pei Chung-hsi in Peking.
Considerable interest is being expressed in General Chiang Kai-shek's protracted absence from Nanking. It was thought that his inspection of troops would not take so long and now all sorts of disturbing ramours are being circulated which undoubtedly have the effect of disturbing Kiukiang Road, if nothing else. General Chiang, it is now being reported, will return to Nanking by a steamer by way of Shanghai, but] this could not be confirmed.
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