Canton Said to Be in the Power of the Kuangsi General:
Mrs. Sun Sceptical Peking, Apr. 18.
A telegram received in official circles from Canton states that Dr. Sun Yat-sen is on board a gunboat and that General Shen Hung-ying has taken up his post of Tuli of Military Affairs.—Reuter.
Canton, Apr. 18.
The commencement of action the part of General Huang Shi-huan's (?Y¥ang Hsi-ming) troops has at last thrown into the vortex of war the troops under the command of Li Yi-piao. The troops yesterday morning attempted to attack Canton bue were checked the Yunnan troops at the Agricultural Experimental Station. These two contending armies are now fighting furiously. Part of the city of Canton is under martial law. General Shen Hung-ying's troops are now fast advancing southward. It is reported that General Shen has decided to rise in arms against Dr. Sun Yat-sen.—Eastern News Agency.
"*, Shen Hung-ying is the Kuangsi leader, working with Wu Pei-fu against Dr. Sun. Of the generals mentioned we cannot trace Huang Shi-huan, but Li Yi-piao is a outside} Cantonese, working on the Kuangsi side, consequently the other troops mentioned are presum. ably Yunnanese. If the Peking report be true, it means that the Kuangsi leader, who was first reported to be getting the worst of the fight with the Yunnanese, has turned the tables on them.
The fact that the report comes from Peking leads one to regard it with reserve. But members of the Kuangsi party in Shanghai said, oni Wednesday, that it was true and added that General Shen is now with the ex-Gov-
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