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in Hunan, hesitating to advance, while still uncertain At this juncture Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang
of support.
made his long expected move and hostilities between him and the Nanking Government began both in print and in the field. But half way through November, General T'ang Sheng-chih, whose forces were extended along the Peking-Hankow railway and took an importat part in the fighting on the side of Nanking, achieved a considerable success by the capture of Lo-yang together with a number of enemy units, which were at once incorporated into his own army.
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Meanwhile with Marshal Feng's declaration of war the opposition to Nanking in the South at once revived. Marshal Li Tsung-jen and General Wong Shi-hung of the Kwangsi party were at Haiphong in French Indo-China, whither they had gone when requested
by the Hong Kong authorities to leave this Colony. From Haiphong they made their way overland into Kwangsi and on the 18th of November, they issued a manifesto, of which a translation is enclosed, announcing their alliance with Cheung Fat-fui and their intention to expel Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. A number of Kwangsi Military Commanders, including Lui Wun-yim and Young T'ang-fai, appended their names to this manifesto; and the troops in Kwangsi province with the exception of two vantonese divisions, which had been sent to assist in the operations against Cheung Fat-fui, went over to Li and Wong.
4. The situation at Canton appeared full of
danger