Gen. Chen Chi-tang, former war lord of Kwangtung, will soon replace Gen. Chen Yi as Chairman of the Fukien provincial government, a Hongkong dispatch to the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday.
Sent into exile following his abore tive revolt in the summer of 1930, Gen, Chen Chi-ting regained favour by contributing $7,000,000 to the Nationalist Government's war chest, the "Mainichi" said.
Gen. Chen Yi received his education at the Military Cadets School, Artillery School, and the Military Academy in Tokyo and is married io a Japanese woman, whose arrest was reported recentl, On Gen. Chen Chi-tang's flight from Canton to Hongkong aboard a British gunboat in 1936 it was alleged that he had transferred $60,000,000 of taxpayers' money to his own pocket.
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