The Archive · 1929

Prox Orr OWS CounesroxDNe

Hongkong, Feb, 4.

Kuangtung is in no hurry to dit-band its 160,000 treeys because robbers will run wild, declared Gon. feral Li Chi-sen when he arrived here from Shanghai this weekend. As soon as the P. & 0. S, Morea was docked at Kowloon Wharf, Captain A. J. L. Whyte, A.D.C, to'Sir Ceeit Clementi, the Governor, went on board to welcome the Chinese general, Gen. Li then paid a visit to Sir Cecil Clementi at Government House.

Expressing his views to pross representatives on the Disbandment and Reoriganization Conference in Nanking, General Ti emphasized that the meeting could be te successs. At this confer representa the interest 0 While ayrecing bbe viewed in their practienl aspect rather than in high sounding and theoretical principles.

General Li said that at present Kuangtung and Kuangsi have about 160,000 soldiers, In the opinion of the National Government, at least 100,000 must be disbanded, 'The' whole process must be completed in six mouths according to a resolution ff the conference, Some members. sujgusted that the more soldiers sare demobilized, the better it will for the national treasury, This idea sounds good, but in Li's own mind there are other factors that deserve consideration

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