The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-20
U. S. BUILDINGS
FIRED UPON IN
CANTON SCRAP
Ambassador Schurman Asks
Protection Rushed-Gun-
boats Are Expected to Pro-
ceed There at Once.
AMERICANS IN DANGER
fBy Associated Pressl


PEKING, June 20.-Three American
buildings in Canton were struck by
shells during Sundays bombardment
of the city by the gunboats of Sun
Yat-Sen, the South China leader who
has been trying in vain to recapture
his stronghold. Jacob Gould Schur-
man, the American minister, has ask
ed Rear Admiral Strauss to rush pro-
lection to Canton and American gun
boats are expected to proceed there
Word that Americans in Canton
were endangered was received at the
legation here today in message from
American consul at Canton. The ex-
, tent of the damage to American prop
erty was not stated The consul has
protested to Sun Yat-Sen against indis-
crimtnate along the Bund, the ,nacad-
amized way on the water front
PEKING, June 20-No day since
1918 has dawned with fairer prospects
of peace and prosperity for China than
this one. For the first time since that
year she has government with some
color of constitutionality in power al
Peking; DR.. Sun Vat Sen the chief
political opponent of the Peking re-
gime is stripped Of most of his power.
and the chief of the turbulent Tuchuns
or military provincial governors has
been reduced to inactivity so far as
arms are concerned. Moreover Man
churia which day or two ago was
proclaiming semi-independence, has
signified its willingness 10 adhere TO
the unification movement
| Ii Yuan-Hung, formerly president
! by grace of his succession to the Of
| flee from the vice presidency on the
| death of Yuan Ehih-Kai and now
again in office by the request of WI
Pei-Fu and other central China lead
ers that he exercise the constitutional
authority remaining in him despite his
ousting in 1917, appeared today in
new light-that of astute political
craftsman
Ii Arranged Overthrow.
When WI and his supporters were
importuning Lii to return to Peking
and resume the presidency, Ii de-
INJURED on the ground that he must
be president of united China, or
none, that meant in simple terms,
that Dr. Sun Vat Sen must abandon
his presidency of the Canton govern
ment which involved by inference the
fall of that government Sun was
obdurate, but Ii did take office
Now comes the disclosure that be-
fore he left the retirement of private
life, Ii had arranged with Chen
Chung Min, eastwhile important lead
er Of Suns troops to overthrow the
Canton president and seize his cap
A-I TO4L L
but only now has 1t been learned gen.
erallv that Ii had a hand in arrang-
ing them.
Sun is still aboard the gunboat at
Whampoa which he boarded last Fri
dav when Chen's coup attained sue
cess.
Wu's defeat of Chang Tso-Lin in the
; north and the resultant armistice and
withdrawal of Chang's forces toward
Mukden his headquarters leave WI
free to move t7ops south, and this he
is doing. Already the dispatches tell
of the arrival of his battalions. from
the north, in the area tributary to
Canton, where the fighting must be ii
an armed effort is attempted by any
Of Suns forces.
HONOLULU, T. H, June 20.-A ca
blegram from Hon Kong to the Lib
erty News, a Japanese language week
ly paper here, says DR.. Sun Yat Ser
is preparing to launch an attack with
10000 troops against Canton in an eff
fort to regain possession of the city
! from Gen. Chan Chung Ming, whl
! drove him out last week.
LONDON, June 20.-A Shangha
dispatch to the Morning Post says i
: is rumored that Sun Vat Sen. formei
2 head of the southern Chinese govern
2 ment, is on his way to Shanghai on
D warship. He is said to be accom-
S panied by WI Ting Fan, who was hi!
e foreign minister
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