CHINESE LEADERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 10 December 1924, Page 9

CHINESE LEADERS.

ILLNESS OF SUN YAT SEN. CHANG TSO-LIN REPENTANT, i ! Renter. PEKING. Dec. 8. i The Southern leader, Sun Yat- Sen. is i ill. and his departure from Peking for 1 Tientsin has been postponed. No doubt, j the P-olsheviks are looking for Sun's ar- , rival there as an opportunity to bring (Vimmunism prominently, forward. A ' 1 *' t trtmber of Communist demonstrations j have been arranged. Hie Minister lor Edwation has issued | a circular to the colleges warning them ! ega-nst mass meetings and processions | when Sun arrives. Having promised to - m "order the ' post of inspector-general in the three Eastern provinces. Marshal Chang Tso- i lin. the Manchurian war-lord, in a cir- j cular telegram cancels the expedition i against Marshal \\ u Pei-fu. lie ex- j presses pitv for the killed and wounded ! in the fighting with his own country- j men, and candidly avows that the rauso of the civil war was rivalry between j loaders. He. proposes to take all his J forces back to Manchuria, and promises l hereafter to obey the orders of the I ( mitral Government, thus demonstrat- j ing that lie intends to live up to the ' policy of non-intervention in politics on i the part of militarists. I

AN IMPERIAL EXILE. MAY SETTLE IN ENGLAND. TOKIO. Dec. 1. It is expected in well-informed iiroles that the former Emperor of Chir.i, who was ejected from the Imperial Palace at Pekin by General Feng-Yu-Hsiang, when the latter seized the capital, a ill soon seek asylum in Japan. Possibly he may go later to England, there to make a j ermanent home.