Gen, Li's Representative, Receiving Warning, Bolts Hongkong, Nov. 17.
Arrivals from Canton last night atated that Wednesday's fighting! started in the headquarters of Gen-oval Huang Shao-hsiung, General Li Tsai-hsin's representative, when General Chang Fa-kyei's "Ironsides" disarmed General Huang's Kuangsi bodyguard.
General Huang Shao-hsiung, who had been forewarned, fled from the city and Canton fell into the hands of General Chang Fa-kuei's repr: sentative, General Wang Ki-che Generals Li Took-lam and)
Yo, who issued n proclamation pression of the influence of the militarist, General Huang, Shao-hsiung, using as watch words: "Down with the new militarists! "Down with the great Kuangsiism The proclamation concluded by asking the people not to be frightened and to continue business as}
Yesterday during the fighting two) fires broke out in Canton, the first atGoneral Li Tsai-hsin's headquarters, and the second, involving more elsewhere in believed that casualties in the fighting between the " factions:
mail, most of the victims, inge innocent spectators. An eyewitness saw a large number of dead fu the streets.
The steamer Charles Hardouin, while on its way to Hongkong from, Canton last night, was fired on by! the Whampoa Forts and struck in tthe tween and lower decks, a bullet penetrating the wooden side of a second class cabin. There were no casualties.
Nov. 18.
A wireless message: from Amoy, of yesterday's date states that! troops. have arrived there.—The {oops have proceeded up-country City's Peaceful Aspect Hongkong, Nov. 19.
The city of Canton is said to be maintaining its usual peaceful aspect except that, on November 18, the army under General Huang /heiang suddenly attacked the Whampoa Cadet School, where the cadets made a desperate defence against the attackers for several hours.
The result seems to have be favourable to General Huang's army.
sporations for the defence against General Huang—Shao-hsiung's armies stationed in the region of the East, West and the North Rivers are now being carried cut around Canton, Canton Branch of the Kuomintang Political Council has appointed General Chang Fa-kuei to be Chief, of the Military Council, Ku Meng-yn to be Chief of Canton Branch. of Political Council and Chen Kung-po to that of Kuangtung Provincial]
General Huang Chi-hsiang has published an order for the arrest of 1 Huang Shao-hsiung and, at men's and railway-workers' guilds to be on the watch for General Huang Shao-hsiung, offering a reward of- $10,000 for hi arrest.
Tai Tien-chiv, who had been appointed by General Li Chi-hsin to bbe the acting-Chief of the Canton Branch of the Political Council on. the latter's departure from Canton' to Shanghai, secretly escaped from Canton to Hongkong, and was found te be hiding in a Japanese hot Toho.
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