General Lung Chin-kuang, ex-Military Governor of Canton and Huichow and a younger brother of Lung Chi-kuang, Chiangchun of Kuangtung, has been promoted Full General or Chiangchiin prefixed with the title Lingwu, and appointed High Commissioner of Investigation of Yunnan. This title was bestowed upon the Chiangchiin of Yunnan who is, thus, presumably deprived of his rank. Lung Yukuang has been appointed Military Governor of the Canton-Huichow Lin Hsien-shih, Military Commissioner of Kueichow, who is sus-of treachery, has been ordered to vacate his post, pending investigations by the Government, Tang Erl-kun is endued with the rank of Military Commissioner, to officiate, for the time being, as the General Officer directing military affairs in Kueichow.
The report that the Government making inquiries about those officials who owed their positions to recommendations by Tsai Ao, is indignantly refuted as utterly ground-leas.
The Peking Government has now admitted that Huangchow and Chienyang in Hunan have been occupied by the "Nation Protection Army" of Kueichow. The fate of Hunan has reached an acute state.
Dr. Morrison, Adviser to the President, is said to have advised the immediate cancellation of the monarchical form as the only possible retreat to safety, apparently having been convinced of the untakable general tendency of the popular mind in the south.
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