The Archive · 1923

Demonstration Against Pres. Tsao Kun

Canton, Oct. 28.

The Canton newspapers are publishing the names and home addresses of those Cantonese Members of Parlrament who are accused of having accepted bribes for electing Marshal Tsao Kun President. Many of the families of the accused have nfoved out of the local jurisdiction by taking passage to Hongkong.

October 28, the 19th day of the 9th moon according to the Chinese calendar, being the 12th anniversary of Kuangtung iindependence, when the last Manchu Viceroy was forced to flee from Canton, the Cantonese celebrated the day by holding an anti-Tsao Kun parade. The Kuomintang political party, the labour organizations, and the students participated in the demonstration.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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