Extracts from Intelligence Report for the September
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Lung Tutu's Government.
MAG 22 NOV 13
The political events of July and August Teading up to the establishment of Lung Chi-kuang as Tutu of Kuangtung have already been fully described in Mr. Jamieson's despatch Confidential No. 33 of August 18 and need be only briefly summarised here. Ch'en Ch'iung-ming's declaration of independence on July 18 at once
estranged the sympathies of the Cantonese who refused to contri- -bute towards a carpaign against Yuan Shib-kai; while General Lung, appointed Tutu by Presidential mandate, prepared to march down on Canton from Kwangsi. In the meantime the territorial troops had
been seduced from allegiance to Ch'en by Yuan Shih-kai's agent,
Huang Shih-lung, and on August 4, enraged at the execution of some
of their officers, they revolted and drove Ch'en from the city.
For one day General Su and after him Ceneral Cuang Wo-ch'uan occupi
-ed the position of Tutu, which was handed over by the latter to
Lung on his arrival on August 11. The new Tutu encountered some opposition from the Lu Chun artillery, whom he dealt with drastical -ly, but by the 18th. order again prevailed in and around the city.
Chang Wo-ch'uan fled to Hongkong taking with him, according to
official reports, about $1,300,000 of Government funds.
Established in office and surrounded by a numerous bodyguard of his own troops, Lung's first object was to consolidate his position. Huang Shib-lung, whom the President had rewarded for his services with an appointment as Commander-in-Chief was induced to resign that post, which conflicted with Lung's authority as Military Governor, and return to Peking, greatly to the Tutu's relief, who suspected him of more ambitious designs. The office of Commander-in-Chief of the naval forces and water police of the province Lung procured for his elder brother, Lung Chin-kuang, who had followed him from Kwangsi where he had previously assisted him in a military capacity. To his brother also he entrusted the re- -establishment of order in the Kuangchou Prefecture, with a command of 16 ying, each consisting of 506 men, being 11 ying from
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