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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1922.

NEW SITUATION

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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 el so as to prevent all possibility of his ng to the overtures of Pakiu, The traordinary President" had steadily been g the confidence of his own people for aths, and his uncompromising attitude

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SHANGHAI, Sunday. Representatives of Generals Wu-Pei-Fu and

10 Chang-T80-Lin are meeting on board his Majesty's ship Curlow, at Ching-Wan-Tao, to it arrange the details of an armistice.-L'entral

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PROSPECT OF REUNION.

PEKIN, Saturday (4.45 p.m.). While it is very difficult to get reliable in- formation from Canton, there is no doubt, judging from telegrams received at the Lega- day, and that But-Yat-Sen has led from the tions here, that a coup d'état did occur yester- 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, downfall is perhaps the most significant event but the fact oven of Sun-Yat-Sen's temporary that has occurred in China for years.

As an agreement exists between General

th his friendship with his colleague, Chen-Wu-Pei-Fo and Chen-Chiung-Ming, the pro-

ung-Ming, was wrecked. In truth, Sun-

en bas long outlived his usefulness, and ough in the interests of unification Li- n-Hung could hardly do less than invite co-operation of the rival President of the th. nothing would bave been strous than the incorporation of Sun-Yat- in the new Chinese régime.

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is difficult to say to what extent Li-Yuan- ng and Wo-Pei-Fu have been privy to this p. though it is clear from the romarks let by the new Premier a week ago, that he not expect Sun-Yat-Sen to remain much ger in China. It is too early yet to assess precise difference that his disappearance Treuse in Chinese politics, though it is safe ssume that Chen-Chiung-Ming has no wish stever to assume the residential chair th the flight of Sun-Yat-Sea has rendored Lat. Although Chen-Chiung-Ming and Per-Fu are personally unacquainted with other, it has long boon noted that in ral their aims, and even oharacters, are divimilar. Like Wu-Pei-Fu, the Southern Jemal, too, has now to make a momentous sino, and it may be taken for granted that ll make it in much the same circumstances hose which attended the expulsion of the thern president, and the setting up of a Government by Wu-Pei-Fu. To both erak politics are a distastoful and strange un; but Chen-Chiung-Ming will inevitably himself involved in just such perplexities those which divided the counsela of Wu- Fu, and as certainly called upon to abape ivit policy and set up new officials of the ces of which he has expelled the chief Tistrate.

The point which is now being most otosely

chod in Pekin is his attitude towards Wu-|}

-Fang, who, it will be remembered, issued anifesto sight days ago in which he de- Inced in no measured terms the new Pekin remment. It was reported here on con- trade authority that Li-Yuan-Hung bad equently made direct overtures to Wu- Fang-not an unnatural action on his seeing that the latter, more than any politician in Chius, was identified both the cause of Republican union ja 1911, with the subsequent protest against mili- sm, which led to the secession of the thern States and the establishment of the ton Government.

situation is complicated by the positive tion of Wu-Ting-Fang that he had never ived any such overtures from L-Yuan- But whatever may have been written aft unwritten on either side, it is believed that the abdication of Sun-Yat-Sen will so largely modified the position that Wu- Fang is unlikely to persevere in re that closes the door to reconciliation ween the North and the South. If, as in jared, Chen-Chiung-Ming is inclined to together with Wu-Pei-Fa for reunion, it et improbable that the Southern Minister the Southern General may both accept hofion in the new régime in which care, ugh much eloaring-up work remains to be the split of 1917 may be said to have patched up again. În senso Chen- g-Ming has the entire situation in his d. for no conditions can well be rejected the new and unstable Northern Gorera-

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spects 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-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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