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way. I went back two hours later the same way and they left me alone. It has really done much good, for Mr. C.C.Wu called and expressed regret and even the strike authorities did the same! There are now police detectives at the gate and the pickets have been forbidden by the Government to molest any one. So I scored, I think. But the atmosphere up here just now is very odd and almost anything might happen at any moment. Things are not well at all".
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The third important event took place
on the 24th April, when General Ng T'it-sheng, the Cantonese Chief of Police, was suddenly relieved of office by the Canton Military Council at the instigation of General Cheung Kai-shek, ostensibly in compliance with a previous decision of the Council that military officers in command of troops should not at the same time hold civil posts. This action was taken by General Cheung without prior consultation with General T'am Yin-hoi, the acting Chairman of the Canton Council of Government, or with Mr. C.C.Wu, who as Mayor of Canton is theoretically in charge of the Police Department. Dr. Lam Tsz-fung told Mr. Hallifax that Mr. C.C.Wu had resigned as a protest against the action taken by General Cheung, but that his resignation had not been accepted. This is General Cheung's second coup within the period of about a month and it appears to show that the military authorities in Canton are now dominating the civil authorities. It is not possible yet to
A Lange the effect of this coup on the Canton situation.
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There is now an increasing probability that the situation in Kuang-tung will before-long
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