Canton's Week

P: Japan recognized the new revolutionary "Chinese Government'' at Canton last week as a government de facto.

P: Great Britain held up at Hongkong $1,000,000 worth of munitions consigned to Canton.

P: Relations between the three-week-old Canton Government and three-year-old Nanking Government (the one recognized as the de jure Government of China by all Great Powers) settled down last week to a threat of war plus an agreement to divide customs revenues.

While protesting the iniquity of Canton, Nanking agreed nevertheless to let the Southerners collect customs revenues in their area without hindrance.

Nanking's purpose in thus yielding what Canton had already seized was merely to preserve intact, so far as possible, the complicated customs collection machinery in which numerous foreign experts function as important cogs. Cog A. C. E. Braud, the English Customs Commissioner at Canton, squeaked: "I accept this new arrangement under protest." P: Morris Abraham Cohen, English-born Jewish trick-shot pistol expert, was gazetted by the Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From 1921 until the death of great Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, "Sure Shot" Cohen was the personal bodyguard of the Father of the Chinese Republic.

With General Cohen there also deserted to the new Canton Government last week Ace Bert Hall of Bowling Green, Ky. In 1913 Aviator Hall and his mechanic were Turkey's two-man air force in the Balkan War. When the World War broke Aviator Hall was in Paris, joined the Foreign Legion, left it later to help found the famed Lafayette Escadrille. He shot down nine German planes, was decorated seven times by Allied Governments. Aged 50 he is still spoiling for fights, picks plenty in China, where he is "General Chan."

Until recently "General Chan'' fought for Nanking under General Chang Huichang, Commander-in-chief of the Nanking air force. Last week in Canton General Chang Huichang took office as Commander-in-chief of the Canton air force. Cried loyal "General Chan," "Our Canton air force is superior to Nanking's, both in pilots and in number of planes!"

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