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Kwangsi leaders began their retreat from Hunan by different routes early in the month. Both came up against Cantonese troops that had been sent in pursuit. Cheung Fat-fui met with resistance at Yu Hsien and Tu Ling when both sides suffered heavy losses. Eventually he managed to force his way into Kiangsi and at present
his whereabouts are uncertain. The force retreating
under Li Tsung-jén, Pai Chung-hsi and Huang Shao-hsiung engaged the enemy at Heng Chow, where it appears the Cantonese were outflanked and suffered heavier losses than their opponents. Li Tsung-jén is now supposed to be in Kweilin, Pai Chung-hsi is in Lui Chow and Huang Shao-hsiung in Pin Yang. Nanning is in the hands of Kwangsi adherents under Colonel Wei Yun-sung. It is said that the Canton Government is planning a concerted attack on Nanning with the help of the Yunnanese, who are at Lungchow. But the latter are anyhow an uncertain factor, and as it is unlikely that Nanking will be able to spare them the promised funds they are quite
unreliable.
3.
Wang Ching-wei's emergence from obscurity and his arrival in Peking on the 23rd of July indicate that the Leftists do not despair of dominating the Northern- Confederacy, and in the event of Northern success it seems not unlikely that he would be de facto President of China. He is in more senses than one the heir
who
of Doctor Sun Yat-sen, and it was he wrote down ( some say composed) the Dr's famous will. He has recently
written