Goes South to Try for Peace But Will Lead Armies If Endeavours Fail Canton, Aug. 11. For the first time since he left Canton in 1926 as leader of the Anti-Northern Expedition, Gen. Chiang Kal-shek set foot here to-day when he landed in an aeroplane from Kuling. The Generalissimo, who was accorded a rousing reception, was accompanied by Gen. Chu Pei-teh and Mme. Chiang. He intends to make a final attempt to liquidate the Kwang-situation by negotiation, falling which he is expected personally to direct a punitive campaign against Generals Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi.
Gen, Chen Chien, Chief-of-Staff at Nanking, arrived here a few hours before Gen, Chiang Kal-shek, to make arrangements for the establishment of headquarters for the Generalissimo. Reuter, night, when three Kwangsi_ aero planes arrived here to join the Central Government air force, Squadron-Leader Cheng Tze-hsing, who was in command of the planes, reported that six machines took off
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