Canton, Oct. 1.
This has been an iting week in Canton. On Monday niorning the first news to be heard was that all traffic was stopped on the Canton-Hankow and the Canton-Samshui Railways ard that no boats were going to the country. Then later on we heard that Ngai Bong-ping, the Chief of Police, Li Took-lum, the commander of the troops on Honam Island, and the Navy had declared against Mu Yung-hsien, the Military Governor.
On the afternoon of Monday an! aeroplane flew over Canton and dropped a large number of leaflets saying that these military command ers had requested the Military Governor immediately to leave Canton, and that if he did not they should attack him, and large rewards were offered for the capture of Tsen Chun-hsuan, Mu, and one or two other leaders of the Kuangsi party. The people of Canton were exhorted to rise and expel these men who had for so long fastened themselves on the Cantonese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.