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as advisers, Jacob Borodin being the chief. Its principal War Lords are Generals T'ang Shang-chi .and Chang Fa-kuei, who menace the Kuang-tung
administration from Hunan and Kiangsi, while stand- ing on the defensive at Kiukiang against the troops
of the Nanking clique of the Kuo-min-tang. There appears to be some understanding between the Hankow clique and Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang to the effect that
the latter will act in Honan province as a buffer
against the northern militarists. But the general position of the Hankow clique seems at the moment
very precarious.
ix. The Fukien province is the home of most of
the prominent Chinese naval officers, including their
doyen Admiral Sah Chen-ping, K.C.M.G., and the in-
fluence of the Navy in Fukien has throughout been on
the side of moderation. In April, 1927, the Fukien
Navy found an ally in General Lu Hsing-pang, an ex-
bandit who controls the north of the province. It
was then arranged that two other War Lords in the
province, Generals Chang Chen and T'ang Shu-ching
should be provided with funds to march to Nanking,
leaving Fukien to the Fukienese. The funds were
found and General Chang with his troops left for
Chekiang province in the first week of May. But
General T'ang did not leave, and to him rallied the
labour unions, politicians and military officers,
who were hostile to the North Fukien clique. Con-
sequently, when Admiral Yang Shu-Chuang arrived in
Foochow from Shanghai on the 25th May to take charge of the provincial administration, the hope that he
would be