Canton, April 20. ganized is the Bureau that the public has been kept if the dark as to the real reason for the movement of troops northward during the past week, and they have been lead to believe that the soldiers are being sent bring an end to an inter-village fight. The writer has finally succeeded in learning the truth, and from a most reliable source ' has} learned that General Tam Yuen-hoi's division has been sent up the North River in the direction of Shiukwan, and. that there is really serious fighting going on in the vicinity of Peipakong and Wushek. It appears that the troops of the former commander-in-chief of the southern forces, Hui Shun-chi, who were disarmed by his successor, Chang Kai-shek, have been organized into an army again and are fighting their way towards Canton. City. Ngai Bong-ping, formerly important political and military Teader in the south, but who had to flee for his life when the "vods" came into power, is blamed by the local government as the instigator of this revolt. His lieutenants are reported to have been working quietly for a long while organizing their army, the active leaders of which are said to be Young Chi-sun and Young Yue-hin, two former Yunnanese generals who, since the! recent defeat of their forces by the local troops have been in the neighbouring province of Kiangse, close to the Kuangtung border. They are said to be now in the employ of Wu Pei-fu, and to have come into this province when the fighting against the force of Tam Yuen-hoi started.
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