Mail Running Blockade to Shanghai From vk OWN Connesroxpent Canton, June 16, In no period of China's history has there ever been in operation such a thoroughgoing news censorship. Letters in which there is the Yeast allusion to what is going on between the North and the South are most apt to get into the censor's waste-paper basket, and the same] to strengthen its pos goes for telegrams. Canton has ing of simply been isolated by scrutineers of mail and wire messages that Nanking has set to work, Only by running the blockade cat news be got through to Shanghai, Public convenience is of small moment under the circumstances. It goes without saying that if every word of every piece of mail has to be read by Nanking agents, the postal channels are sure to become Congested, and there have been long. delays in the delivery of postal mater either way, both going, to ani coming from Shanghai. And perfectly innocent commercial telegrams Rave in some eases been held Several days by the over-worked censors.
The disastrous effect that Canton reports thay have on the state of the Nanking bond market is believed by some officials to be largely the son for the reluctance of Northern authorities to let any report emanating from Canton get. the controlled by. the gime. It maybe remarked waning has been given the Shan hai bankers by the new Tui Canton, that they will handle: ings. bonds at their per for the dity of these bonds vill not be Tecognized by the Canton govern ment Wile there have been several scares having to dp with coming attacks and proposed" counter attacks, the reports have been empty words. "Chiang Kai-shek's troops only 20, miles from the leader. "Te 39h Route Army Kuangtong lines" "reads one, bold jong the masses, but his strength! is drawn entirely' from the size and strength of his own personal military force. Once this foundation has crumbled, the now powerful Generalissimo' will become a oakling who must ran for his lie. the believe, will win the day and end) the dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek, conceded that the objective 5 that in the long run there to be a bitterly fought contest with cartridges and bayonets before the issue can be decided. Therefore, all that can be done is being done to increase the size and efficiency of the southern army. and) ly_bringi thenew enlistments; the arsenals are being filled with' munitions of war. Up on the Ease River, from which an enemy may come out of either Fokien or Kiangsi, and up on the North River, whence may come a foe from either Kiangsi or Hunan, barbed wire entanglements are doing. stretched. trenches are being dug, earthworks thrown up, and the ground strewn with barbs, June 24
Had not the spy to whose machinations the ensue can be traced been apprehended, the revolt among JCantonese troops at Sin Chi (San Kai) which has just been suppressed ight have assumed much larger proportions. As it was two regiments came out flatly for Chiang Kai-shek, fought when loyal troops came to deal with them, but, because the government had been forewarned and tell prepared to core with the situation, the rebellion was put down within 24 hours.
These tve regiments are of the J4th Division of the 2nd Army of the Ist Front. that is they are in. the leid G2nd Division of Ge: Han-ping, General Chem being: the present 4th Division com-Jmander, Their camp at Sin Chi was jelose to the sorthern section of the HYueh-han o: Canton-Shiuchox Railway lina, not far north of Canton.
Your correspondent has not been Jatle to tern all the ins and outs lof the buying over of the regimental officers, hut has been reliably informed that on the evening of the 22nd posters were put up in Sin IChi in the name of the 4th Division lealling upon others to follow in. its in Foochow and other cities in Fukien Province were inaugurated jon June 26, Mr. Yuan Ching, rector of the Foochow Shipping, Bureau, having been appointed concurrent director. After taking up his appointment, Mr. Yuan divided! footsteps and come out on the side lof the Nanking President, Before the pro-Chiang move could gain much, momentum, General Li Yang-ching's troopers' from Shiuchow began to draw close to Sin Chi, Jorought down from their encampment by train. That same evening
digging themselves in, and there was hey. threw up earth-works, jo skirmish with the rebels, By morning the Li-Chang soldiers vere ha:
at it battling away for fe, but the advantage was Gen. Li's detachment from the start, Before sundown victory was lcompicte, and those ath Division who did not get away had to surrender their arms. is claimed, the brains behind' the short-lived volt. Nor had he. stopped at lbvibing Kuangtung officers, "15 telegrams, so the story goes, were sent by Wa from Nanking after he had learned military secreta in Canton.
Only a few weeks ago, this arch Ispy had come down from Shanghai, jand his professions of love for his Jold _associaties. here and for their cherished cause were taken as lgenine, Graduating from. the [American government ary school, he had served as an aide-decamp to Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
When Chiang Kai-shek tec his troops north 10 unify the county, Wu Te-feng went along loticer in Chu Pei-teh's army. Marshal Li Chi-sen nude him. his Military Disbandment Commissione land as such he served at Naaking. [Then came the retrocession of, Weihaiwes, and Wu went there as lone of the Commissi fidelity jundispnted, this traitor to the South land it stands to reason that he learned: nuch that, imparted 20 the Nanking officials, proved to be much value to them, Somehow or other suspicions were aroused, and undercover men started shadowing Wa Tz-feng, and he. wes, The China National Anti-Opium Association has likewise despatched, telegrams to its branches in the various provinces, calling upon. them to intensify the opium supres+ sion movement "and to sond in jrtrongly-worded protests against the Government's new policy, 4 round to be sending these traitorous, messages over the wire from Honge kong to Nanking. When he camd back to Canton a few days ago ha iwas taken into custody and a con Htession was, it is said, obtained. On the afternoon of the 23rd, the sama tay that the 4th Division troops ISin Chi kicked over the t He-teng. went ce, meet Mie Stakes, Jevot down by a military firing squad, While the battling was going on in Kuangsi, there was much mystery labour a consignment of supplies the Kuangsiites were sups sed to get from across sea ud that What actually hap-3 out, By steamer the cargo came from la foreign land, but vigilant Kuang tung gunboats made it extremely Ihazardous 10 risk running the lackade and landing the cases on ithe mainland, Instead they were taken ashore and buried on the intend of Hainan. The cache ie now, facing opened up, and the supply lave being taken across into Kuangsi itor ko uso of the Kuangsi army, that has pitched camp on the Hunan Ihorder xendy for action czainst Chiang Kvi-shek.
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