Evening star., 1922-06-18
President Sun Fugitive and
Southern Regime in Com
pIete Collapse.
TO REORGANIZE OLD
REPUBLICAN PARLIAMENT
Southern and Northern Elements
Expected to Join Hands
Through Chen's Coup.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
PEKING, June 17.-Gen. Chen Chi
uns Ming, formerly civil governor OF
kwantung province, whose troops
seized Canton Friday. announced to-
day that the South China of Canton
government has been terminated and
that henceforth Canton would unite
with the north in recognizing the old
republican parliament.
Dispatches from Canton describe the
collapse of the southern government
as complete. Suns military forces
crushed and the former Canton presl-
dent himself a fugitive.
Advices received here vary as to
the details of what are called the last
hours of the southern constitutional
government nor is it definitely known
how much fighting preceded Sun Vat
Sens flight.
Reported Fight at Palace.
One dispatch from American sources
in Canton declares that Suns body
guard continued to hold the presi-
Dental palace in the face of the as
aaults of Yecui's troops after their
aeader had taken refuge aboard a
eunboat and departed for Whampoa.
Another report said that Chen Chi
Yechui. suddenly surrounded Canton.
seized the forts. invaded the city and
marched upon the palace.
The fall of the southern leader is
said to have been the result of an
agreement between Gen. Wu Pei-Fu.
dominant military chieftain of north
ern China; President Lii Yuan-Hung
and Chen ChiunG-Min. formerly Sun
Yat-Sen's supporter, but who later
came out in favor of reunited China.
Would Speed Up Plans.
Official circles here assert that the
elimination of Sun Yat-Sen will mean
speeding up of the plans to reunify
the country. However. they issue the
warning that a counter revolution
may develop if Sun is able to gather
enough troops about him to launch
a drive to regain Canton.
Unless Sun is able to retrieve his
lost authority it is believed that Chen
Chiung-Min's coup will result in many
southern members of the old republi
can parliament proceeding to Peking
and constituting the necessary gov
ernment quorum to put that legis-
lative body in legal motion again.
DR. Sun Yat Sen. called by his sup
porters the father of the Chinese re-
public and the life of the democratic
revolution of 1911. which resulted in
the death of the monarchy and the
birth of the republic. was born in
kwantung province in 1866.
He was educated in Hong Kong and
Honolulu. 7. H. where he lived dur
ing two separate periods. Sun leaped
into prominence as Chinese revolu-
tionary leader in 1886, when he was
kidnapped in London, allegedly with
the connivance of the Chinese legation,
which represented the Manchu
dynasty He regained his liberty
when the British government took
cognizance of the affair.
In his years of exile Sun travelled
the world. welding Chinese scattered
j NdIIOuS SOuhli iSS iheO Gil otiSA
monarchical organization. When the
revolution of 1911 broke out and was
followed in 1912 by the abdication
of the boy emperor, Hsuan Tung, the
republican government set up at Nam
king elected Sun Vat Sen president.
Soon after he retired in favor OF
Yuan h-Kai. but when Yuan turn
ed traitor to the republican cause and
attempted himself to ascend the
dragon throne Sun vigorously op-
posed him.
Following Yuans coup, the then
Premier Tuan Chi-Jui dissolved the
republican parliament and with that
anti-democratic stroke in 1917 the
constitutional government of South
China, which yesterday collapsed,
came into being.
Sun fed to Canton, taking the navy
with him, establishing the South
China government and continued to
be it's dominant figure until he fed
republican parliament, and with That
day with Chen Chung Ming's troops
battering at the gates.