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To. 31,
Enclosure in leking Respatch. No. 274 of 21 thay.
H.B.N. Consul-General,
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enclosure.
CANTON.
May 4th, 1921.
Inauguration of Sun Wen as Fresident.
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After having been elected President of the Republic of China on April 7th, by the votes of 218 members of the Rump Parliement out of 222 present, Sun Sen - more commonly knows as Sun Yat sen was yesterday sworn in and assumed office. So soon as this had taken place his Foreign Minister, Dr. Wu Ting fang, forwarded me the accompanying Presidential manifesto addressed to the Foreign Powers.
After a military parade, consisting of no large number of troops, a reception was held about noon, which was attended by numerous Chinese and not a few foreigners, including my Japanese colleague in plain clothes.
The Civil
Governor Ch'en Chiung-ming and his officers walked in and walked out again, and neither Mr. Tang Sheo yi nor General Tang Chi ya were present. The Chinese attendance is described to me as having consisted mainly of returned students and emigrants, large numbers of whom came up from Hongkong. The older and the more substantial elements of
local Chinese society stayed away.
The demonstrations of public rejoicing, which were
to a great extent factitious, were considerably interfered for with by rain, but I am told that the stage management purposes of propaganda was excellent, and that the cinemato-
In view of the graph operators were kept extremely busy. use which is likely to be made of these pictures, it can not be too strongly emphasised that these demonstrations were not
Sir Beilby F. Alston, K.C.M.O.,
C.B.
His Majesty's Minister,
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