The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-15
CANTONESE
GOVERNMENT
IMPEACHED
General Chang kai-Shek Ex'
pected TO Establish New
Regime at Nanking
CHEN IS NOT INCLUDED
Cantonese Menaced Fro IN
Two Directions BY North.
ern Chinese Troops

Washington, April 15-(AP)-
The destroyer John d. Ford to.
t"v fired ruor Chinese northern
troops, using her four.inch guns
loaded with shrapnel shells, and
sliencing the fire which the
Chinese had directed upon the
Standard Oil ship Meian.
Official reports on the incident
reaching the navy Department
said the northern troops were
entrenched abreast the Ford in
the Yangtxe river opposite Nan.
king and had been firing upon
the oil ship and exchanging shots
with Chinese nationalist troops
on the Marking side Of the river.
The Ford ut first returned the
fire with Its machine guns. the
report said. and the British
cruiser Emerald, anchored along
side, also turned it, machine
guns upon the Chinese. The
Chinese ceased firing ut the
Meian and concentrated upon the
Ford, which was hit In many
places but suffered no Casualties
to its crew Of material damage to
itself.
Shanghai, April 15.-tP)-Resolu-
tions impeaching the Cantonese gov.
crnment at Hankow were adopted a,
today's meeting Of the kuomintane
(the Cantonese political partly al
Nanking, Quo Tai-Chi, Cantonese
commissioner for foreign affair:
here, was advised tonight.
In consequence, General Chang
kai-Shek, the Cantonese general
issimo, and foe of the extremists
in the Cantonese ranks. is expected
to establish new government al
Marking.
The resolutions demanded that
numerous leaders be taken into Gus
tody as "disturbcrs Of the public or.
der in China" including Michae
Borodin, the Russian who has beer
acting as adviser to the Hankow gov
crnment; George Hsu Chien, minis
ter Of justice; Chen Tu-Hsui, leader
Of the Chinese communist party
Tung Ping-Shan. minister of agri
culture; Teng Yenta, notorious agi
tator, and Is others less we'll known
Eugene Chen. the foreign minister
was not named in the resolution, thu
speakers declaring he was not actu
ally communistic but was the tool Of
Borodin and the others. How thu
men named are to be taken into Gus
tOdy was not explained.
Means Definite Split
The meeting is said to- have bQer
attended by majority of the central
tang, and the action means definite
split in the kuomintag ranks.
News of the development was un
fnv
reports or plans to delay the meeting
gates from Hankow.
lining up their forces. A mass meet.
ing at Hankow re-denounced Chang
kai-Shek and his followers as cOun'
ter-revolutionists, and invited Fene
Yu-Hsiang, once known as "the
Christian general" and rcputcdly 8
radical, to join forces with the Han.
kow radicals to fight Chang.
Commanders Support Chang
Dispatches from Chunking, Szech'
wan province, says seven command.
ers Of Cantonese troops have ISSUED
q joint circular declaring their oppo.
sition to communism and their sup
port Of Chang. They announced
that they would act under the prin.
ciples laid down by the late Sur
Yat-Sen. founder of the Cantonese
government.
Reports from elsewhere south OF
the Yangtze indicate a similar lining
up either in behalf of the. commun.
lists or OF Chang.
While this is going on, the Can.
tonese arc menaced from two direc.
tions by northern Chinese troops
Fengticn (Manchurian) forces are
marching toward Hankow from the
Honan-Hupch border, while troops
of Chang Tsung- Chang, Shantun.
gese leader, are fighting the Can.
toncsc at Puk0w, across the river
from Marking.