Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-23 | Page 1 | Wu Ting Fang Dead, Canton Report Says

WU TING FANG BEAD, CANTON REPORT SAYS Former President Sun Not Prisoner, But on Board Own Warship SHANGHAI. June 23. (By the Ae-bof Ae-bof luted Press) Wu Tinr-Kang for-nur for-nur minister to Washington, more recently re-cently foreign minlstor foF Bun Yat Ken in ihe disrupted southern ropubll-.m ropubll-.m sovrrnment at Cnnton. died at ' anton this morning, iiecordlng to a Heuter dispatch. Wu, an outstanding leader In the politics- ;inj jurisprudence of China for many yejrs. remained ut last repur's, loyul to Sun Vat S-n and was belli rod to have nod inton with the deposed south china picsldent. The Reuter dispatch gave no details. PREMIER l PEKING In 1917 Wu Ting Fanfr was prime minister of the i'eklng republican bOv-irnnient. bOv-irnnient. After the government as then constituted, was overthrown by militarists, he went back to Shanghai. Latcr he cast his lot with .Sun '.it S n and since had been Sun '8 moHt powerful power-ful statesman. When LA Yuan IIunK recently was restored to the presidency of the i -n-iral government in ' kin It nu i Wu I'ing Fang that he turned im-help im-help in unifying tile country. President Presi-dent LI. on assuming otrice. telegraphed telegraph-ed Wu an offer to 1)4 premier at i'eklng. i'e-klng. So far as correspondents had been able to learn, the offer was Ignored Ig-nored LI. at least, announced that he had received no reply The president, pres-ident, however, had not tilled the most Important place In his cabinet, pending pend-ing hope of a favorable answer from ii, Northern statesmen had expressed : the opinion lhat Wjl Tlnn Pang vould dvi more, p- rnaps. than Sny other in m to bring tne nortli and s-.uth together! DB 61 N N PRISONl R A 1 V. China. June !SS ' By the As-BOCiuted As-BOCiuted Pre.-,si Dr Sun Yal Si-n deposed de-posed president of the South China Republic, variously reported as at-J tacking Canton, Qselng that city for; Shanghai and a prisoner of the United j China forces, is aboard one of hla own warships: -it Canton. Negotiations are proceeding for his departure His wife, reported a prisoner of Wu J'i ! U foiees, has escaped to Hong Kong. Thlsj information was telegraphed hero nam Coaioa. Bombardment of Canton has cased, with the retusal of gunners of Sun Vat Sen's navy to continue their attai I and a hush nas settled over th city All shops are closed American gunboats gun-boats requested when the bombardment bombard-ment was started will not bo sent Looting continues In Canton, di spite proclamations threatening death to . those guilty.