From aw Correspondent.
Local Cantonese leaders of the Cheng Hsueh-hui faction are so certain of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's immediate collapse in Kuangtung nunrber of days that the will be that they are betting on the
able to remain in Canton. Those who are in close telegraphic touch with the situation grant him another 10 days as ''generalissimo."" All Cantonese residents in Shanghai are so sure, indeed, that Dr. Sun is en the point of flight that they have given up abusing him for his maladministration and are chiefly concerned now about the Yunnanese mercenaries whom he will leave behind. This body of desperadoes, who dare not go home and who would have to fight, their way back through Kuangsi if they could return to Yunnan, will "be left with no means of support but their arms and no resort ut pillage. No commander can employ them without antagonizing the Kuangtung people and there is no way to dispose of them except through extermination, The Yunnanese are not likely to submit to any such disposition meekly and it is feared that, however they are handled, they will inflict a good deal more misery upon the province before Kuangtung sees the last of them.
The only cheerful feature of the whole muddle which Dr. Sun is expected to leave behind is Shen Hung-ying's present inability to return and create trouble. The Kuangsi raider is at present unpopular with all factions. Wu. Pei-fu regards him as a failure and will give him no more support. The other Kuangsi leaders—particularly Lu Yung-ting—have denounced him as a time server and will give him no backing. He is still supposed to have about 12,000 men under arms but they are scattered and cannot get together and his immediate following does not number 3,000. While his position near the bordbr effectually blocks the path of other Kuangsi invaders, he himself is no menace to Kuangtung. It is believed in the South that if he can get his men together he will return_to Kueilin and eventually work back into southern Hunan or Kiangsi as an independent freebooter. Some little time ago he notified Wu Pei-fu that he intended to invade southern Hunan, presumably to cut off Tan Yen-kai's retreat, but the Loyang chief promptly not fied him that he could not authorize such a campaign. General Wu evidently has enough on his. conscience without making himself responsible for any more of Shen's deviltries.
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