Sun Yat-sen's Best Troops Defeated: New Volunteer Commandant: A Six-Hour Day Canton (despatched from Hongkong), Feb. 1.
Reports from Kwangling state that 300 men of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's own bodyguard, one of the best trained forees in the Kuomintang army, were defeated there on China New' Year's Eve. According. to these reports, they were sent there to assist the peasants in their demands for-reductions in rent from the owners of farm lands in that district.
Mr. Lee Oi, a Chinese graduate of jan American' University, who is magistrate at Hokshan, has been elected commandant of the Merchant Volunteer Corps of 14 leading towns bordering Namhoi and Hokshar, The Kuomintang authorities st! Canton are reported to have appointed Mr. Tong Cho-fung as judge and Mr. Ma Hing-luan as procurat: r, of the newly-established High Court! of Wachow:
The Labour Department of the infang, at a meeting on Jan y 29, passed a resolution in favour of a six-hour day.
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