Nanking, Aug. 1.
General Huang Mo-sung, newly' appointed chairman of the' Kwang. tung provincial government, arrived here by steamer to-day. He declared, in an Interview, that he would do his utmost to suppress opium and gambling in Kwangtung and abolish {legal taxes.
General Huang has tentatively fixed August 4 as the date of his de-_ parture for Canton. He will probe. ably Leave by alr and in the company of Mr, Tseng Yang-fu, the Mayor of Canton, and Mr. Liu Wel-chi, Reconstruction Commissioner.
Tk ig understood that Mr. Tseng Yang-fu_may hold concurrently the post of Vice-Minister of Railways—Reuter, Ex-Chairman To See Gen. Chiang Hongkong, Aug. 1.
On instructions of the Central' Government, Mr, Lin Yun-kal,. the outgoing chairman of the Kwanglung an, numbering 30,000, entered ling, close to. the Kwangsi border, yesterday morning. Four divisions of Central troops stationed at Hangchow and Tayu, in Southera Kiangsi, started a westward marco towards Kwangsi on July 2%, while the 88th Division, stationed Hslaopeikiong, has sla. begun an advance west.
'Similar' preparations are being made in Kwangtung, where three divisions have already been concentrated in the West River region, with two other divisions now on their may to the front. Orders to proceed fo Kwangtung's western border have deen issued by Gen. Vu, on instruc tions from Gen. Chiang, to, 20,000 troops stationed along the Canton~ Hankow Railway.
'Men Under the Kwangsi colours are estimated to number $40,000, of whom 400000 are ill-disciplined and poorly equipped militiamen. Of the 140, (000 regular' troops, 70,000 belong, to Gen. Pat's crack nulls, among the best' in the nation, and' their equip:
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