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GAZETTE, TUESDAY, 27 JUNE.
THE POSITION IN CHINA.]"
In spite of much that is still unset- fled, there is some ground for the hope that China is beginning to emerge from the troubled conditions that have obtained in the country since the dis- memberment in 1917. Wu Pei-fu has ended the power of the Mukden dieta-T. lor, Chang Tso-lin, whose forces are now outside the Great Wall. With the fighting finished in the North, Wu bas now an opportunity of consummating the Constitutional changes which he has so long advocated. But their scope can at last extend to the South, where Sun Yat-sen ruled recently. The posi- tion here is not yet quite clear, but the chief factor in it is of great importance. On 16 June Chen Chiung-ming's troops took possession of the forts around Canton, and Sun Yat-sen took refuge in a warship. Since then his movements have been a fruitful source of rumour. Last Thursday he was reported cap- tured; but on Sunday be still appears
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to have been with the navy of the Can- ton Government, and while this remains loyal to him he cannot be wholly ignored. But Chen Chiung-wing ou entering Canton called upon Sun Yat- sen to repounce the title of President, and proclaimed the reunion of the North and South. Whether the reunion can be consuminated is the problem of fou the immediate future; but for the first mo time since China was rent in twain the there has appeared a general who is clic strong enough to take hold of the Northe astute enough to conciliate the reni Wor power in the South, and sufficiently far seeing to be a sincere advocate of the wat unity of his country and of Constitu- OCCI tional development. In Wu Pei-fu les rive the hope that China will recover the YS unity and order that are so necessary to-d if she is not to fall Suite complete aud irremediable anarchy.
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