The Canton community has wholly abandoned this story. {ff General Chen's staff ever entertained this suspicion they have forgotten it; and the foreign community, including the British official community in Hongkong, while face to face with no evidence which would conviet the real assassins in a foreign court, are convinced that General Teng was not shot as the result of a feud within the Kuomintang but by agents of a rival political group, Local Chinese officials openly charge the Kuangsi faction and their Cantonese alles of tne Unenyhsuehhui with the crime ana have backed their charge with sufficient data to set interested foreign authorities to work investigating. The inspiration 1s supposed to have come from Shanghai and the immediate group which is suspected of having executed the death sentence" is said to have headquarters in Hongkong at an address which everyone in Canton now knows and quotes. Needless to say the Kuomintang partisans associate the visit of ex-Governor Yang Yung-tai (locally Young Wing-tai) to Hongkong with the shooting, though no more concrete evidence of his complicity has been made public than was associated with the suspicion directed against Dr. Sun.
By way of dismissing the suggestion that the crime was inspired by Dr. Sun's faction, local officials insist that General eng was equally loyal to both Dr. Sun and General Chen and that he was the strongest link between them, being largely instrumental in settling amicably their various differences of opinion and in effecting compromises when their policies appear-conflict. At this time, they point out, when Dr. Sun is making every effort to unite the South in support of his expedition against the North and particularly to convert General Chen to a wholehearted participation in the campaign, 1% would have been absurdly bad policy to have done away with the one man through whom he could have made his strongest appeal to Chen Chiung-ming.
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