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throne, Kwangtung again declared its independence, but this did not prevent bloodshed. General Lung was denounced as a traitor to the Republic by General Shum, who attacked Canton at the head of a large army. There was serious fighting and for a number of weeks all business was suspended. There was considerable destruction of property and much loss of life before matters were settled by General Lung's transference to another post. The political situation since 1917 has been very confused. A Military Government was formed in the interests of Constitutionalism, and a com- plete severance of relations followed between the North and the South. Spasmodic fighting, the constant movement of troops and rivalries amongst the various leaders in the South have seriously interfered with trade. In 1921 Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose party had driven out the Kwangsi leaders in the previous year, was proclaimed by his followers President of China." In 1922 Sun went to Kweilin, in Kwangsi, to make preparations for his projected punitive expedition to Peking, but his forces never got within a thousand miles of the city, and the hopes which he had based on his alliance with Chang Tso-lin were destroyed by the defeat of this Tuchun's forces by Wu Pei-fu. In the meantime, Sun had alienated his chief lieutenant, Chan Kwing-ming, by this impossible enterprise, and in the middle of the year Chan's supporters put Sun and his followers in Canton to flight. Sun took refuge on the warships which were attached to his cause, and he went so far as to bombard Canton on one occasion, but without achieving any military result. After remaining on a Chinese warship for some time under the shelter afforded by the Shameen, he left hurriedly on board H.M.S. Moorhen on August 9th to catch an "Empress " liner to Shanghai. Chan remained in Kwangtung, as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, and his nominee, Chan Chik-yue, a merchant of Hongkong, was appointed Civil Governor in September. Early in January, 1923, Dr. Sun's sympathisers sent a force composed of Kwangsi and Yunnanese soldiers to invade Kwangtung, and, owing to the supineness of naval units and the poor resistance offered by the disaffected Cantonese troops, Canton quickly fell into their possession. Chan retired to Waichow; the Civil Governor had fled some days previously to Hongkong. remained in possession throughout the year.
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