The Archive · 1926

Tense Situation in Canton

There is a tense fe the city. Armed police are patrolling in threes and four.—Reuter's Pacific Service. sedition. All the 13 are non-Cantonese, they being natives of Kiangsi, Hunan and Fukien, Information taken from anti-Red channels accuses General—Chiang, Kai-shek, dictator of the Kuomi tang Government in Canton, of having despatched secret agents to Swatow to undertake action deterimental to the interest of General Ho}

Ying-yin, said to lo a nowly recruited anti-Red, From similar sources one now hears that General Li Tsai-sum, commanding the 4th Kuomintang Corps, has issued secret orders to his troops to be pr rared at Ho How, the western te minal of the Canton-Samshui rai road; that the Hunan and the Yunnan mercenaries in Canton are combining to oppose Geners Chiang; that General Chiang Ki shek has already sent members of his family to Shanghai; and that General Chiang himself may, under the pretext of inspecting the' troops' in Hainan, depart for that island and Southern Kuangtung, so as to avoid being surrounded at Whampoa, bout which military vigilance has been ordered for some time, General Tan Yen-kai, commanding] the 2nd, and General Chu Pei-teh, the 8rd Kuomintang Army in Canton, are being closely watched by secret agents of General Chiang, according to persons near Kuomintang circles. So far neither nor Chu-has taken any action which could be adjudged as unfriendly to Chiang. Tan has been made Mi ment, with General Li Tsai-sum, as Reuter's Pacific Ser-

Tne Onékiang military are mov. ing quite x large number of troops these days; 370 Fukien recruits entrained "on Thursday for Fukien, 400 Chekiang recruits ai rived from Nanking and took the places, while 800 "Fukien re: arrived in the Native City to take up billets and 126 Hangchow regulars, with two mountain guns, Passed through Shangaai <n route for Nanking.

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