Playing her part as a willing servant of the National Government, Kuangtung is asking Kuangsi to cease referring to her Military Headquarters as the Eighth Route Commander's Office, and she ing. that Governor Huang. wi show his loyalty to the National Government by consenting to take up the post of Director of the Military Reorganization and Dis andment Ofice for Kuangsi.
ese two requests are complied ard a guarantee is given all ihe opium that is needed Canton will be went down here, then, for her part, Koangtung' will hguitertake to" give her—friend $600,000 a month towards hoe military expenses. has astonished the Canton officials to find that Muarg Shachung is hanging back, pouting, and has answered Heung' Hon-ping saying that, siroc Kuanglung hackinie Chiang Kai-shek, he cannot he friends with her." Strange, indeed, for opium is the very life hood of Governor Huang's province, which, unless she traflicks in this narcotic, needs mast be poverty stricken, lacking as she does natural resources and productive dusttics, Inthe past, 4,600,000 taels of opium have come to' Canton from Wuchow, on the average, month in and month out. Thy bayer has made a huge profit by raising the price and reselling to concessionsires. Kuangsi has derived a comfortable income from the sale of revenue stamps, a doll: stamp being required for each tach sold. Sixty per cent. of the colleen tions of the revenue stamp office 's gone into the Kuangsi treasury, the other 40 per cent. being trans mitted to the National Governmea:. So, as it stands, Huang Shao-hung has so let his ire get the best of him that he is passing up the opportunity to gain the sum of. $2,400,000 monthly, in addition to. the $600,000 per month which Kuangtung also has promised 19 give him, The Phantom Navy The report circulated in Canton fon the 11th tothe effect that the Hoi Ying, the "dreadnought" of the Nationalist Navy, and the Ying a man-of-war of th second class, had dropped anchor in t! harbour of Whampoa the previous Friday, has proved to be a hoax, On Thursday, a telegram came from janking, snnourcing the intention of the Admiralty to send these vessels south, and the publi hearing that the oats arrived the day following the receipt of this message, concluded that Nanking had purposely failed to report tha date of arrival, ard therefore [bed upon this as an unfriendly octo same report told of a banquet given by Admiral Chan Chak the same evening, at_which Admiral Chan Wing-far, of the Nationalist Navy, was one of the principal speakers, 'The Kuomintang news agency, which gave' out this report has not taken the pains to correct it, and those who have seanned the situa. tion with any degree of care have concluded that the local government. was responsible for giving out this statement, A flotilla of twelve gu oats was sent up the West River just about that time, and it may be that Gen, Chan Chai-tong wanteit the report to reach of the Kuangsi people, causing them to believe that Nanking was eo-operating with Canton in staging this naval demonstration, An attack by Kuangsi, if it comes, undoubtedly will be from the direction of Wuchow, and hence it is highly portant that the local troops. and the navy should effectively block the West River route.
The Communist Scare The warning sounded by the! Foreign Office recently that in.all us of the country, the local. officials should be on the lookout to detect any move which the Communists might make has been heeded in Kuangtung, Mr. GT. Wang had passed on' the informa-ered by officials along the border which indicated that eretly is sending its again to China, While both the police office and Military Head. quarters are uncommunicative, ths arrest of a Russian ina Canton hotel recently on charges of being a Red agent has become publicly known, Last Monday, 29 students of the Chung Shan University Medical School were arrested in a valid, bus all, it is understood, have proved their innocence, They had. taken sides on the question of whether Gen, Li Chi-sen really gave supper' to the rebellion against National authority or not, and the charges were trumped up by one of the factions, Motor cars filled with police run daily through the city streets, stop——various street intersections, and all passers by are searched for cealed weapons. Every posi precaution is being taken to dis courage the radicals, but of Into nothing startling has come to light,
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