On Juno 10, there was a meeting to elect a civil governor. It is reported that Mung (one of those four prominent Kuangsi leaders) remarked that someone had to fill the post; and for his part he suggested himself! The rest of the meeting fell in with the idea and proclaimed him to be the man.
All the o4ice holders, under_ the previous administration are being ejected. They say that Mung is a man of no education or experience, though he is a "B.A." graduate; but of course they may be prejudice ed. The new regime are not so keen on education, and among other things the funds of the schools are being used to pay the soldier.
It is remarkable that no one ever thinks of Lu Yung-ting now in connexion with the government of this Province. He has been invited to return as a private resident but nothing more. The man whom everybody looks to and who has been repeatedly urged to come, is Lin Chen-ting the virtual C. in C. of the Kuangsi army while in exile. He gave freely out of his own purse while his men were hiding among the hills' He is actually a native of Kuangtung. He and his army are at Linchao, and he apparently will not risk leaving those quarters until he has settled matters with that fly in the Kuangsi ointment, Lao T'ao, the discard-led Kuangsi Tuchun of Kueichow province. This gentleman is now at K'engyuen in Kuangsi with 7,000 men from Kueichow, and vehemently is pressing his claims to be Tuchun here where nobody wants him.
Recently Lin wired to Nanning for $50,000 in coin, and it is con-lectured that this money is to buy the other man off. Nanning thinks it is cheap at the price.
Wuchow is still in the hands of Kuangtung; and the latter continues to talk of "reconquering" this province. Liu Chen-huan and Wang Ming-tang are down south at Watlam planning a return here. Their only thought is self aggrandizement. We hear all these things, but of course we really know nothing of what is going on. We merely wait and see.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.