According to messages from Canton to Hongkong papers, Canton now has no English daily newspaper. The "Canton Times" was compelled to cease publication on May 30 by order of the Military Governor.
The charge against the paper was that on May %, it published a leader entitled ''Will there be a Third Government?"
It made comments favourable to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, Mr. Tang Shao-yi, and other constitutionalist leaders, critizing the policy and conduct of the present militarist leaders in Canton.
The "Times" predicted that there would be a struggle within the next few months and that the Southern militarists would fall. The Military Governor considered that such comments were detrimental to
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