The Archive · 1926

CANTON GOVT. GOES TO WUCHANG

The New Nationalist Capi All Departments Transferring to the Yangtze Canton, Dee. 1, The Political Council has definitely decided that the Nationalist Gov-Jernment shall be removed to Wuchang.

No specific date is fixed. Certain department heads and bureau chiefs will travel to Wuchang within a few days to make the necessary arrangements for housing the Government ministries in the new Nationalist capital. When. they five the word the staffs will move The removal of the Nationalist Government was decided upon the recent Kuomintang Congress but actual removal was postponed pending development of the military campaign and investigations of the mission now in the newly-acquired provinces.

General Chiang Kai-shek," commander-in-chiot of the Nation. alist forces, in approving the /moval of the Govertiment to Wuchang, expresses a feeling of the complete security of Southern control of the Yahgtze territory. Reuter.

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