CO129-501-5 Chinese situation- Recognition of Canton Government 22-7-1927 - 28-9-1927 — Page 28

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would be able to inaugurate a government controlled

by the Fukien Navy and supported by General Lu,

under the aegis of the Nanking clique of the Kuo-

min-tang, was frustrated. Admiral Yang has been unable to come to terms with General Tang and

there is at the moment no effective administration

in Fubien.

x. The provinces of Chêkiang, Kiangsu and

Anhui are at present ruled by the Nanking clique

of the Kuo-min-tang with Marshal Tseung Kai-shek, a native of Chêkiang as War Lord. This adminis-

tration professes itself to be anti-red, but it

made its way to power with Bolshevik help and

advice. It has a purely nominal control over

Fukien, Kuang-tung and Kuang-hsi. It is on the

verge of hostilities with the Hankow clique, and

until recently it was at war with the northern

militarists and was invading the Shantung province.

At the moment, however, there appears to be a

truce between the northerners and Marshal Tseung.

xi.

The province of Shantung has for some years

past been dominated by General Chang Tsung-chang,

a ferocious and brutal tu-chun, who acknowledges

Marshal Chang Tso-lin of Mukden as his overlord.

general

No one supposes that sh Chang has any policy

other than the lust of personal power and gain, the

maintenance of his supremacy in Shantung and its

extension, if possible.

xii. There remains the province of Chih-li,

once the metropolitan province of China, but now

differing from other provinces chiefly in that the

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