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and General Tang Yin-walı.
In addition, General Chien Ta-chun,
the Garrison Commander, has been appointed Martial Law Commander to maintain local peace and order. The Special Committee has issued a fanifesto declaring that under the circumstances this
province of Kwengtung has now served relations with the Hankow Central Kuomintang, as the latter is now controlled by the Communist Party.
Mr. Koo Ying-fan has been appointed by the Kuomintang Special Committee Provincial Finance Commissioner and concurrently act- ing Finance Minister. Mr. Li Cheng-yi, who was authorised by T. V. Soong to be in charge of financial affairs, has now been de tained. r. Soong is reported to have been detained in Shanghai by Chiang Kai-shek.
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The Anti-Red Campaign in Canton on Good Friday was much applauded by merchants and the general public, but certa in classes are still not satisfied that the action taken here was not so thorough as that teken in Swatow on the 17th, where all labour unions were sealed end closed. Although the red labour pickets have been disarmed and some 2,000 suspects arrested and detained, the Canton-Hong Kong Strike Committee and the notorious Labour Delegation Union are yet allowed to reorganise and continue to function. The Department of Labour and Peasantry has issued a proclamation re-assuring genuine workers and peasants that they will not be interfered with and their unions
The Canton will be given due protection by the Government. Mechanics' Union is a well-known anti-Red organisation and did a great deal this time in assisting the government troops in disarming the railwaymen. As the majority of the Yueh-Hen and Samshui railway workers have run away, the Government has now instructed the members of the Mechanics' Union to undertake the operation of these two lines and also that of the Canton-Kowloon
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