"Unwelcomed and unsung." Chu Ching-loan has come to town, and, while he will not admit that his visit has any political significance some of the best informed think otherwise. They maintain that Mr. Chu will become Political Advisor to the Kuangtung Govern: ment, and that he will be a sort of Inison officer between Nanking and Canton. In the sixth year of the Republic, this worthy was Govern-oe of Kuangtung, and it was he who drove out the Kuangsi tyrant of those days, Lung Chai-kuang. La the long run, Governor Cha had to of course, does not apply to all the companies in that area, but it, applies to so many that competition of an unfair nature must te considered, entered the camp of Marshal chang 'Tso-lin, and, since the death of the Manchurian' warlord, he has been serving under his son and successor, 'Vu Chok-pals, the civil head of the Kuangsi government, has been' in Canton some days, seeking a grant of money, since Kuangsi is a poor state, and cannot raise what fs needed to keep up its army. He has now gone back to his own district, and the secretary to. the Eighth Route Commaniler, Chan Chai-tony in a statement given out for publication yesterday, says. that Nanking will give from' $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 for reconstruction purposes, but is silent on the point of an appropriation for military parposes. It is generally supposed that, in the course of time, Nanking will give its consent to the setting aside of a portion of the national revenue coming from Kuangsi for the upkeep of the local armed force.
Chan Chai-tong's secretary stated that Nanking insists that robber ands be driven out, and th of highways linking Kuang: and bringing that province closer to the outside world he earvied on. apace. All the allied troops who assisted in subjugating this state, vanquishing the minions of Huang Shao-hung and Li Chung-jen, are to go back to their own districts. Gen. Ho Kim and his troops are to move into the border counties of Wing-chow and Chuenchow, in the province of Hunan,
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