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out at Canton in Juno, 1925, and wanton massacro was only arrested then the city was placed under martial lay and the maintenance of order confided to General Tsoung Kai-shok, who thus come into prominence a socond time. The Kuang-hai and Yunnan troops were driven out with much slaughter and a new Government was formed with Wu Hon-man at its head and sixteen "commissars"
on the Soviet model, Conrade dong Tseng-wai (1) being chairman, General Hol Sung-chi the war Commisser, Conrade Ng Ch'in-shu (11 A) - better known as (1£ §A
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0.0. łu Liu Chung-hoi ( this time onwards Comrade Jacob Borodin was
the Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and Comrado
(P) the Finance Commissar. From
the real power at Canton, acting through Comrade Wong Tsengi in internal affairs and Comrade 0.0. Ju in foreign affairs; and supported by General Tsoung Kai-shck and his Russian- drilled troops,
This inct vas mada increasingly clear by the readjustments in the Canton administration consequent on the assassination of Comrade Liu Chung-hoi in August, 1925. Comrade Liu had the reputation of being the most orthodox communist in the Canton Soviet and his
assassination was attributed to anti-Red reactionarios.
Accordingly u Hon-man and Hou Sun-chi, tho thorough- noss of whose communism was suspect, were driven out by their more Bolshevik colleagues; and Courado Jong Tseng-
vai becamo nominal head of the Canton Government with
Conoral Tseung Kai-shok as commander-in-chief of the
Cantonese forces.
Conscquent on this coup d' bbat, General Ch'an
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