Evening star., 1927-04-19
CHANG DISMISSED;
ORDERED ARRESTED
Feng, Christian General, Is
Named Successor and Sent
to Attack Him.
By the Associated Press.


By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, April ia mandate
| dismissing Gen. Chang Kai Shek as
commander-in-chief of the Cantonese
armies and ordering his arrest and
punishment has been issued by the
Cantonese government at Hankow
News of this development was re-
ceived in messages, from Hankow to.
<day. Two other mandates were is
| sued, as follows:
Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang. formerly
known as the Christian general" is
named Chang's successor, with Gen.
Tang Seng-Chi, military governor of
Honan, as associate commander-in-
chief
The third mandate announces sever
ance of relations with Nanking and
Shanghai Gen. Tang is ordered 10
move his troops. toward Nahking and
| attack Chang Kai.Shek.
Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang's appoint
ment dissipates the hopes of the right
wingers in the Kuomingtang or Can
tonese political party that he would
not join the Hankow faction.
Chang Forms Government.
Establishment of new government
at Marking BIZ the adherents of Chang
| Kai-Shelx is confirmed by authorita.
tive Chinese sources. It's inauguration
was started by a great mass meeting
at which several Chinese notabfes
spoke. including Chang
Chang emphasized three points:
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ton started by the late Sun Vat Sen
against the Manchurian, regime must
continue to inspire the people.
Second. Marking must be the capi-
tai for many reasons, including the
fact that Sun Vat Sens mausoleum
was there and also because the peo.
pie must be shown that. despite recent
events, the leaders were not afraid 10
establish the seat of government
there.
Third The people must never be
governed by military eliques or for
eign oppression.
Outrages Growing.
The Asiatic Petroleum Co. has re-
ceived letters from its agents at Kiu.
kiang, in Kiangsi Province, reporting
| that the situation is steadily becom-
| ing worse since the province passed
from the control of Chang Kaishek
and fell into the hands Of extremists,
These extremists, one letter states.
drag through the streets all those
| they dislike, many victims having
| their ankles tied with rope" The
extremists are circulating photo
| graphs of all sorts of indignities to
which they subject their victims, as
a means, the letters say, of intimidat-
ing others.
Owing TO poor communication, news
| from Hankow was meager. Vernac-
ular newspaper reports said Chang's
opponents were preparing for a shew-
down, consolidating troops at stra-
| tagic points in the belief that the
only solution could be military one.
!. Says Reds Paved Way.
Michael Borodin, adviser to the
Cantonese government, and others
aver that Chang owes his position
entirely to the left wing members Of
the Kuomintang winning the way to
the Yangtse with q minimum OF
fighting, the path being paved by
propaganda. Borodin is quoted as
asserting that without the principles
established by the co-called reds, .
the Nationalists would have been nc
lowers In the north and the Cantonese
revolution would have ceased to be q
revolution. becoming nothing more
than another campaign by a ''waI
lord with exalted ideas of himself
1t is learned that at the Nankinp
meeting r. V, Soong, Nationalist
finance minister, and Sun-Fo, mem
ber of the central executive com
mittee of the Kuomintang, were dis
{ missed by the committee. Soong is
a brother I'm law of the late DIR. Sur
Yat Sen, first president of the Chinese
Republic. 1t is known that both
men were unpopular with Chang
kai Shek.
Fire Across River
The Northern Chinese armies a
Pukow, on the north bank of tn,
: Yangtze River, shelled the Cantones,
[ at Nanking, on the southern bank
yesterday, says a wireless dispatch
from Nanking today. The Cantones'
guns replied. but no details are giveI
as to the outcome of the firing. Th'
| guns at Pukow are reported to hav'
badly damaged an unarmed Cantones'
vessel.
Responsible foreign reports indicat'
that opium smuggling is going OF
openly up and down the Yangtzt
River, especially at Nanking. Thes'
reports say that in recent months th
> traffic has increased so that at tn
, | present time il is enormous. The.
describe how boats bring the druI
from the ports and sanpans com
alongside to make purchases. TIL
average price is said to be 50 an ounce
Most of the opium comes to Shanp
;. hal, where local consumption Is wide
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