The previous report of the entry into Kuangsi of 16 Yunnanese regiments was an exaggeration. Only three regiments of Yunnanese are) in the neighbouring province; they fare near Lungchow, and have not' been permitted to go to Nanning as they prayed they might be. And it is not certain that these out siders will help th. enemy. The purpose for sending them on this mission was to carry a shipment of opium through to Pakhoi in Kuangtung, where it might be converted into' ready cash which Yunnan ands in need of for military e penses, $10,000,000 worth of raw. opium, it is'said, is being carried along by these three regiments, and their officers are said to have offered to give a 10 per cent. by way of commission for the right to cross through Kuangsi territory, with their valuable cargo. But there has not been a meeting of, minds, so the further passage of the Yunnanese has been held uj At least 835 officers and men have rebelled at Waichow. That number of names is affixed to a petition! which has been sent to Chiang Kaishek asking that he resign and suggesting a course to be taken after he leaves. They demand that a national Kuomintang congress shall be called, and that furthermore the people at large shall have a voice in the naming of General Chiang's successor. If the popular will call for the retention of Chiang. Kai-shek as the President of the Republic, the protestants will withdraw their objections to his continuing in office, but they insist. that the people at large shall say whether or not he is to stay, No one man, they insist, shall hold all the power in his hands. Fighting should at once cease, and the outstanding points of dispute should be left to a popular convention to settle, Among other things, the people through their delegates. in this convention should proclaim to the world the abolition of the so-colled unequal treaties.
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