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man, suggested the seriousness of the situation. A grave crisis, which may per- manently effect the course of Chinese history occurred on April when Chen Tsai Tong, the Commander-in-Chief in Canton, effected a coup d'etat, deposing Chen-Ming-Shu, the provincial governor and a faithful supporter of Chiang Kai Shek. An alliance with the Kwangsi Party, the Ironsides and
and the Northern rebels, under Yen Hsi Shan and Fung Yu Hsiang was concluded, and a rivel "National Government" set up at Canton. The ostensible reason for the coup was a protest against Chiang Kai Shek's arrest and detention of the veteran Kuomintang leader, Hu Han Min, and a propaganda compaign of intensive violence, demanding the resignation of the President was prose- cuted. The new regime at Canton included Mr. Sun Fo, who had escaped from Nanking, Mr. Eugene Chen, as foreign minister, and Mr. Wang Choi Wei as President, though the real power was in the hands of the military leaders. War was declared on Nanking, but the strong 19th Army of Chen Ming Shu, then fighting in Kiangsi, refused to join Canton, and no actual hostilities ensued, negotiations being continued, and, morever, the seriousness of the Kwangsi position, restrained Canton from action that might help the Reds. Chang Hsueh Liang, the Manchurian Governor, remained loyal to Nanking, and the only movement in the north was by the "Grey" general, Seuh Yu Shan, who was soon, defeated by the Fengtien Army. The great floods in the Yangtsze valley, on the Yellow River and in Shantung shamed the militarists into keeping the peace while hundreds of thousands were homeless and dying of want and exposure. The extrality question, well to the fore when the year opened, languished owing to the continuance of civil strife and to the savage murders of John Thorbrun, near Shanghai, in which Govern- ment Officials were said to be implicated, and of Captain Nakamine in Man- churia. The outspoken report of Mr. Justice Feetham on the Shanghai pro- blem, and his findings against early rendition also suggested that the time had not come for abolition of these rights. The main events that happened in 1932 were the Sino-Japanese troubles in Shanghai and the Establishment of a new Govern- ment in Manchuria called “Manchukuo", and the loss China of Manchuria and the Kwantung Leased Territory to Japan.
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LEGATIONS
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BRAZIL
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