Omaha daily bee., 1922-06-13
Gen. Chang Renews
Fierce Fighting
Against Gen. WI
Armistice Only Ruse-Li
Yuan.Hung Accepts Presi.
dency-To Abolish Mill.
tary Governors.

London, June 1.-THE army oi
Sun Vat Sen. southern Chinese
leader, has. captured Kanchow XII. in
Kiaigsi province, according to a
Hong Kong dispatch to the Daily
Mail. The fall Of the city was pre-
ceded by several days of severe fight
ing. .-
Tientsin, China, June l2.-(By A.
P.)-Gen. Chang Tso-Lin's .propo-
sails for an armistice with WI Pei-Fu
appear to have been simply ruse to
gain time for the defeated Manchuria
war lord. Heavy fighting broke out
Friday between Chinwangtao and
Shanhaikwan. The battle has been
raging for the past three days.
Pekin, June l2.-(By A. P.)-
China, after 10 days virtually without
an executive head functioning in
Pekin, again has president and the
nucleus of a cabinet. Moreover, if
indications are borne out, the two
will have fair share of support from
the south China section, whose oppo-
sition to the old government has done
much, if not most, to keep alive civil
war for the past five years.
Ii Yuan-Hung, who was president
until the monarchial coup of 1917
forced him from Office, again is in
power. He came to Pekin yesterday
and resumed Office, and his first Of
fetal act was to nominate DR.. WI
Ting Fang, former minister at Wash
ington, to be his premier. 1t is un-
derstood that DR.. WI had consented
to accept this Office before Ii left his
retirement in Tientsin to re-enter
agAin the ' turbulent -theater in
Chinese POLITICAL life.
Power At Canton.
DR.. WI has been a power in the
Canton government since that admin
istration arose as protest over the
very circumstances which ousted Il,
and his adhesion to the new execu-
tive, if confirmed, is likely to do much
toward solidifying the country in its
support.
Ii comes at the behest of many
members of the old parliament which
he dissolved in 1917, and at the
urgent appeal Of WI Pei-Fu, DOM
inant military leader of China. He
was reluctant to come and stood out
for more than a week against the
almost frantic pleas of leaders in the
movement for a unified China that
he reclaim his office.
As assets of his new venture he
may count on the solid support OF
WI Pei-Fu, the good will and con-
fidence OF large proportion of the
former parliament, now reassembling
and re-establishing itself as at least
the temporary representative OF the
people, and more nearly complete
suppression of banditry than has been
the case in many years. This last
largely is due to WI Pei-Fu's ener-
getic campaigns. particularly that
against Chang Tso-Lin, the Man.
churian war lord who recently sued
for an armistice.
Sun May Fight.
As liabilities he may count upon
the open opposition of DR.. Sun Yat-
Sen, president of the South China
government, and so many of the old
parliament members as DR.. Sun has
been able to induce to support him.
DR.. Sun, too, has a good force of
troops in the field, some estimates
placing their number as high as $780,
600. DR.. Sun has expressed himself
as willing to fight for the place at
the head Of China's affairs, which he
claims as chosen representative OF
what the Canton proponents declare
is the only constitutional govern
ment in China. General WI has de.
clared that DR.. Suns military op-
erations will avail nothing, however
and has decried Sun himself as Ia