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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1922.
NEW SITUATION IN SOUTHERN CHINA.
> LIGHT OF SUN-YAT-SEN.
From PERCEVAL LANDON.
PEKIN, Saturday.
The coup-de-main which has displaced Dr. Yat-Sen in the South seems to have been so carried out as to prevent all possibility of his yielding to the overtures of Pakiu, The extraordinary "President" had steadily been losing the confidence of his own people for months, and his uncompromising attitude during the last few days was apparently interpreted both in Kwangtung as a proof of ingrained militarism and personal ambition—the rock on which his arrangements were wrecked.
ARRANGING AN ARMISTICE.
SHANGHAI, Sunday. Representatives of Generals Wu-Pei-Fu and Chang-Tso-Lin are meeting on board His Majesty's ship Curlow, at Ching-Wan-Tao, to arrange the details of an armistice.—L'entral News.
PROSPECT OF REUNION.
PEKIN, Saturday (4.45 p.m.). While it is very difficult to get reliable information from Canton, there is no doubt, judging from telegrams received at the Legations here, that a coup d'état did occur yesterday, and that Sun-Yat-Sen has fled from the city, leaving Chen-Chiung-Ming master of the situation. Whether the latter will remain so, and whether Sun-Yat-Sen has permanently fallen, the next few days will probably show, but the fact even of Sun-Yat-Sen's temporary downfall is perhaps the most significant event that has occurred in China for years.
As an agreement exists between General Wu-Pei-Fu and Chen-Chiung-Ming, the project of his friendship with his colleague, Chen-Chiung-Ming, was wrecked. In truth, Sun-Yat-Sen had long outlived his usefulness, and though in the interests of unification Li-Yuan-Hung could hardly do less than invite the co-operation of the rival President of the South, nothing would have been more disastrous than the incorporation of Sun-Yat-Sen in the new Chinese régime.
It is difficult to say to what extent Li-Yuan-Hung and Wu-Pei-Fu have been privy to this coup, though it is clear from the remarks let fall by the new Premier a week ago, that he did not expect Sun-Yat-Sen to remain much longer in China. It is too early yet to assess the precise difference that his disappearance will cause in Chinese politics, though it is safe to assume that Chen-Chiung-Ming has no wish ever to assume the presidential chair, the flight of Sun-Yat-Sen has rendered that fact clear. Although Chen-Chiung-Ming and Wu-Pei-Fu are personally unacquainted with each other, it has long been noted that in general their aims, and even characters, are very similar. Like Wu-Pei-Fu, the Southern General, too, has now to make a momentous decision, and it may be taken for granted that he will make it in much the same circumstances as those which attended the expulsion of the Southern president, and the setting up of a Government by Wu-Pei-Fu. To both men politics are a distasteful and strange business; but Chen-Chiung-Ming will inevitably find himself involved in just such perplexities as those which divided the counsels of Wu-Pei-Fu, and as certainly called upon to shape his own policy and set up new officials in the places of which he has expelled the chief magistrate.
The point which is now being most closely watched in Pekin is his attitude towards Wu-Ting-Fang, who, it will be remembered, issued a manifesto eight days ago in which he denounced in no measured terms the new Pekin Government. It was reported here on competent authority that Li-Yuan-Hung had consequently made direct overtures to Wu-Ting-Fang—not an unnatural action on his part, seeing that the latter, more than any other politician in China, was identified both with the cause of Republican union in 1911, with the subsequent protest against militarism, which led to the secession of the Southern States and the establishment of the Canton Government.
The situation is complicated by the positive denial of Wu-Ting-Fang that he had never received any such overtures from Li-Yuan-Hung. But whatever may have been written or unwritten on either side, it is believed that the abdication of Sun-Yat-Sen will so largely modify the position that Wu-Ting-Fang is unlikely to persevere in a refusal that closes the door to reconciliation between the North and the South. If, as is declared, Chen-Chiung-Ming is inclined to act together with Wu-Pei-Fu for reunion, it is not improbable that the Southern Minister and the Southern General may both accept positions in the new régime in which, though much clearing-up work remains to be done, the split of 1917 may be said to have been patched up again. In some sense Chen-Chiung-Ming has the entire situation in his hand, for no conditions can well be rejected by the new and unstable Northern Government if reunion is their subject.
Aspects of union between the North and South would be immensely improved with Sun-Yat-Sen out of the way.
The armistice between General Wu-Pei-Fu and Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin is now in operation. Reuter.
END OF CANTON GOVERNMENT
PEKIN, Saturday. Chen-Chiung-Ming has announced that the Canton Government has ceased to exist. Henceforth Canton will unite with the Northern Government in recognising the old Republican Parliament.
Despatches from Canton state that the collapse of the Southern Government is complete, that Sun-Yat-Sen's forces have been crushed, and that the ex-President himself is a fugitive. Reuter.
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The armistice between General Wu-Pei-Fu and Marshal Chang-Teo-Lin is now in operation. Router.
END OF CANTON GOVERNMENT
PEKIN, Saturday. Chen-Chiang-Ming has announced that the Canton Government has ceased to exist. Henceforth Canton will unite with the Northern Government in recognising the cid Republican Parliament.
Despatchos from Cantes state that the col- lapse of the Southern Government is complete, that Sun-Yat-Sen's forces have been crushed, ard that the ex-President himself is a fugi- tive. Reuter.
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