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who are to all intents and purposes Communists. Briefly, it may be explained that the "Western Hill"
party is that clique which clings to the resolutions
adopted by the first general assembly of the Kuo-min-
tang. Their principal representative in South China is General Hui Sung-chi. The left wing is
generally identified with Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, whose
adherents favoured the resolutions adopted by the
second general assembly of the Kuo-min-tang, from
which the "Western Hill" clique was excluded.
2.
The recent civil war between the provinces
of Kwangtung and Kwangsi has so far passed through three phases. The first phase was an attack by the
Kwangsi leaders upon Kwangtung, with the hope of
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capturing Canton by a sudden coup de main.
this purpose it was planned that the Kwangsi army,
under its principal leaders, Pai Chung-hsi, Li Tsung-
jen and Wong Shiu-hung, should advance into Kwangtung
down the valley of the West River to Samshui, and that at the same time their Cantonese adherents, namely, the eastern command in Kwangtung under the Cantonese
general, Tsui King-t'ong, based upon Swatow, should
advance through Wai chow down the East River.
was thus to be a concerted attack upon Canton by
fairly considerable bodies of troops from the west
and from the east. In order to meet these attacks,
the Cantonese armies would have to be concentrated at
points many miles distant from Canton, both to the
west
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