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3. On the morning of Good Friday a number of
officials, who had proceeded to Nanking to take part in the Conference, returned to Hong Kong.
These included three military commanders,
Chan Chai-tong, Tsui King-tong and Tang Yin-wa,
Admiral Ch'an Chak and the Treasurer Fung Chuk-man. Immediately on arrival they visited General Ch'an
Next day,
Ming-shu at the Government Civil Hospital and
left for Canton later in the day.
March the 30th, a manifesto was published of
it was signed which a translation is attached. by Generals Ch'an Ming-shu and Chan Chai-tong, by Admiral Chan Chak and by Cheung Kwong-nai and Tsoi Ting-kai, commanders of the 11th Division. Tsui King-tong, Commander of the Army in Eastern Kwangtung, did not sign this manifesto because, as he said, he was not in complete agreement with its terms. He had since returned to Swatow,
declining, when questioned by a reporter to express any opinion. Shortly afterwards Tang Sai-tsang, who was locum tenens of Marshal Li Chai-sum, Commissioner of Police and Commander of the
Canton Garrison Troops, together with Fung Chuk-man, another intimate colleague of Marshal Li, came to Hong Kong to tender their resignation to General Chan Ming-shu. That of the former was accepted, but General Chan persuaded the latter to remain in office as Treasurer for the present. Preparations for war ceased, but arrangements were at once set on foot to transfer back to their
province the Kwangsi regiments remaining in
Kwangtung.
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