CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2] — Page 231

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On the day before the notification of the above

declaration, the 30th. December, a Presidential Mandate was issued

removing the two Governors of Yunnan from their posts depriving General Tsai lo of his official titles, and appointing the Co

-der of the 1st. Division of the Yunnan army and the Commander of the 2nd. Division of the some force to act respectively as Miliv

and Civil Governors of the province. As the signatures of both

of these offioms appeared on a telegram addressed to the author

-ties of all the province inviting their co-operation in support of the Republic, it seemed unlikely that they would accept the

appointments offered to them and in any case the difficulty of

communicating with them appeared to raise an insuperable obstacle

to the fulfilment of the President's orders. The Minister for

Foreign Affairs asked me to forward the Mandates in cypher

through His Majesty's Consul-General, but to have done so might

have placed Mr. Goffe in a very difficult, if not dangerous,

position and I was obliged to refuse. A similar request was, I

believe, made to the French Minister with the same result.

This review brings the situation up to the end of the year and during the last few days there have been no develop- -ments of my moment. The reports from Canton, Kuangsi and Sze-

-chuan continue to indicate generally a determination to support

Yuan Shih-kai's Government, but there are here and there symptoms of uncertainty and indecision. By far the most serious evidence of this reached me in a telegram received today from the Governor of Hongkong, who is eminently qualified to form an appreciation of the situation. His Excellency whose information is derived from Chinese sources states that Chen Ch'iung-ming, a former Governor of the province who disappeared at the time of the second Revolut- -ion has issued a Proclamation at Hui Chow Fu, a city near the coast, as Governor General of Kwangtung; that Ching Yuen, a distriast city about sixty miles north of Canton has gone over to the rebels; that Kuangsi; is about to go over; that Lung Chi-kuang the present Governor at Canton, is weakening in his allegiance to

Yum Shih-kai, and that the sympathy of the Chinese in Hongkong is

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