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would be greatly in favour of the South.
Now, General Tan Yen-kai, who belongs to
nether the Nanchang nor the Hankow clique, has been
working hard to effect a rapprochement between the two, his suggestion being that the capital should
neither be in Hankow nor in Nanching, but in Nanking.
To this latter place the two contending parties should go; and thus the divergent views now Beld by the two cliques might be so modified as to enable a compromise
to be reached. In my view a rapprochement is possible.