China will have made a long stride towards domestio peace
If, as the news from Canton indicates, Sun Yat-sen, the President of the Southern Republic, has collapsed, He had ordered his commander-in-chief, General Chen, to attack the Northern Army under Wu Pei-fu, which recently defeated the Manchurian Viceroy and occupied Peking. Chen refused, and was thereupon dismissed. But Chen's forces remained true to him and at bis order marched upon Canton. Sun Yat- sen took refuge with the warships which he had seized in the spring, and ordered them last Saturday to bombard the city. His action mist have alienated his partisans, whose property was damaged without doing any harm to Chen's troops. The general proclaimed the reunion of Northern and Southern China and invited the Southern President to resign. It is said that Sun Yat-sen has been arrested by his A. miral.
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