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10. It would appear that the present situation, with all its attendant complications and the possibility of another general flare-up, is in the main the result of Sun Yat-sen's return to Canton and the revival of Kuo Min Tang influence

in the South. But any scheme of military unification (such as appeared possible last year when Ch'en Chiung-ming was in

control at Canton and Doctor Bun biding his time in semi-

retirement at Shanghai) which excluded Sun Yat-sen and the

Zuo Min Tang, could scarcely have had any permanent

results.

11.

The antios of Parliament, who have besa a constant

source of trouble to the Government (e.g. in the questions re-

ported on in separate despatches of the Manchurian leases and

the controversy about the payment of the indemnity to the Lati

Powers in gold or paper france), have been overshadowed by the

threat of further civil war on a large scale. During the nine

months they have been in session the two Houses have done no-

thing but furnish conclusive proof of the impracticability of

parliamentary government in China.

18.

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In the meantime civil war has already broken out in

the distressed province of Szechuan. I do not propose to

trouble Your Lordship with a detailed account of the political

and military manɔeuvrings in that province, which for the most

part concern no one but the Szechuanese, but it is nece 88 ary

to report briefly on recent happenings in the fest as they have a certain bearing on the general political situation owing to su Pei-fu's action in taking advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters and support one of the contending

factions in connection with his general military plans.

13.

The origin of the present conflict in Szechuan is, in the words of His Majesty's Consul at Changking "to be traced to the abortive military conference convened last

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