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militarists. But Fong Shin-yi never come to Conten at all: T'ong Kai-yiu only paid the city . brisí visit; and Kg T'eng-fong was in old ww. „ctul power, therefore, uns almost mu.opolized by th. tuc Krang-hai Directors, buk deng-t'ong and sh...m Ch'on- hun, and those mon soon iell foul of their collegLIUS over a schome for the ndizoment of their miive

provinco (i). Lventually the Kuan -nsi fretion succcoded in oustin, Dr. Sun, vho resiped on the 7th August, 1919, and thereafter tas control of long-tung was in the hands of Luk long-t'on, and his nominee llok (ĝay-su (RA), also a nwive of mng-hai, who had boun womoted from the ranks to high military command. Those men rammined in pover until the latter part of 1020, by which time in whi words of a competent local observer Mang-bila; had buon reduced to "a dismal state of poverty and debt by the varico, corruption and misrule of the Iron- hsi militorists, ho, cnturing, the province ostcnsiuly as defenders of the constitution, proccoded to impose

illegal texus, to licence bling and disorderly

houses, to encourage the traffic in opium, and to

permit the smuggling of orna by robber bunds".

At last, in October 1920, with the slan "Canton for the Cantonesc" (4A), an oxuy oporting from Stator under Conoral Ch'an Kiron-tong

jocted the Kung-si Fr Lords. After his victory

Ch'an Kreng-meng bocane for the third time Govenor

of Nuang-tung and was joined by Dr. Sun Tat-sen, -ho in April 1921 was "electud" President of Ching by a

so-called Parliament sitting at Canton. Bri ho and

General Ch'on soon fell out, with the result that in

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