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of the 18 th ultimo gave an sodount of the fierce fighting which

subsequently took Au00,

The result has bean antirely in fa-

Tour of the SzechuNY) ORO,

their oponants being driven from sity

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to city; Chungking fell on the luth October and the last remnanta

of the Yunnan forces and of their Kueichow allies have been ex-

pelled from the province,

Liu Tsun-hou, formerly the Forthern

Military Governor of Szechuan is again in occupation of his post,

«jile his erstwhile rival wid present ally Hsiung K'o-wu in again

at Chungking, the city at which he first came to public notice

in 1016.

The stability of present conditions in sechuan de-

pends on the maintenance of unity between the various Szechuan

commanders; if their ownduct continuas to be guided by the

treachery and self-nes king which have marked it in the past it

will not be long before they gain fall out and give the YunnaF=

ase the opportunity to srange their resant defeat,

Whatever may be the immediat■ outcome of the unifies-

tion mandate of the 30th October there is a factor which leaves

le hope for futura pesasful developments in China.

in 1911

ar of the Revolution, the number of soldiers under arms in

untry was 629,000.. Year by year the number nas increst-

wig it was 1,50,000; it he now some 1,570,000.

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military leaders continue to ensumber the country