General Yen Hsi-shan and' saved the situation for Nanking, is being transported to, Changsha. by the river route, They will assist the Honan provincial forees in dealing with a possible invasion from. Can= ton, Another picked unit ig the lith Division which already has transported to Kiangsi and which, ed to Chekiang province.
Sava probability, "wil be despatei-Se In all probability General Ho! Ghen-chun, the Chairman of the Hrupoh Provincial Government who is in charge of all the Wuhan armies, will go to Honan to eet re oes central Ho is one of General ind it is claimed that under his command there are 200,000 troops, frost of whom formerly belesged fo the Northern armies and are Known asthe "grey" troops.
General Ho Chen-chui is sil in Nanking discussing the. situation with General Chiang Kai-shek and eis believed that as soon as he returns. to Hankow miliary move ments will be in fell swing- Upon his return the Third Army" Corpa Headquarters will be re-established and. the various route commanders will te reappointed.
When this iz. done it will mean. that war hes become inevitable United Press, Nanking, May 25.
Speaking this morning at the National Government ofice General Chiang Kai-shek made an important statement regarding the present political situation.
Hee said Mr, Wang Ching-wei, Mr son' Fo, and Mr. Eugene. Chen jarived in Canton yesterday anid had. joined in the rewlt against Nanking.
General Chiang''s blunt statement leaves no doubt here now as to the object of it. Sum Fos vist to South ina.
Continuing General Chiang Kai-shake recalled that he organized the famous Whampoa cadets and was rainly responsible for the efficiency of the army which left Canton in 1926 to engage in the war against the northern militarists. Tt was he said, mainly on the strength of this that, the expedition was com. pleted, "The duty, he continued, of a revolutionary. soldier was towards the republic and so long as he need tot, feel ashamed of any. of "his actions his merits and faults could left to future generations to judge.
General Chiang said the dispute between himself and. Mr. ° Wang Ching-wel always had been aver! the "question of ce-operation be tween the Kuomistang and. the Communists, Mr. Wang favoured such ea-operation; he did not.
General Chiang said he would ake © public "the correspondence] which Hed. pasied between' hinsel® and Me. Wang Ching-wei and between himself and Mr. Lite Chang fai," azother "Kuomintang leader (assassinated in 1926)" who, favour-it] ed ce-operation with the Communists, He published this correspondence very reluctantly because he would hare vectored i leurs i. for lure generations General Chiang went on to say' tut lier leaders of the, Kuonine who" suppo pa would receive due respect from hin, but those elders who utilised " thei Jong connections with the party to endeavour to break up the. unifiea~ tion of the party would vigorously denounced, fe concluded by saying that he had no alternative but to treat such leaders og rebels and do his. best to suppress them as reactionary cements, This drastic action vag] not to be interpreted as an oppressive measure; such action was] Laken to protect the interests of the [Government and the Kuomintang.
Following General Chiang's statc~ ment it is predicted here that hostilities "most beale out soon, probably in three weeks, divisions of Government troops are moving districts in Chekiang, Kiangsit Anhui into Hunan and Gener Ying-ching, Minister for W: going. to Changsha sharily to sot his eld headquarters as com= wander of the expedition against Honolulu, May 22.
Cabled messages. received from Mr. Sun Fo in Honolulu today sought the aid of the Chinese in Hawaii for Mr. Wong Buck-hung, the treasurer of the"Chinese Liberty News," a Chinese newspaper pub fished in Honolulu. Mr. Sun Fo, sent his message from Tongkong, Overseas Kuomintang off here have been advised that Mr. Wong was removed from the liner Asama Maru by Chinese police at Shanghai. Tt is not known here for can it be learned from Mr. Sun Fo's messages why the Honolulu Chinese newspaper publisher was taken from the vessel.
Mr. Sun Fo, it is understood, yined that Mr. Wong had been taken from the vessel after he had sailed for Hongkong from Shanghai aboard that vessel with been Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister in the former Wuhan Goverament.
The "Chinese Likerty News" one of the most prominent of Kuomintang organs in Honololu, Mr. Wong is prominent among the Kuomintang members in Honolulu. He was making a journey to South China aboard the Asama Mara and as far as can be learned no news of him has been received since he was
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