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Yen Shi-shan and Feng Yu-hsiang.

9. Yen Shi-shan cannot be really friendly to Feng Yu-

hsiang: it was only last year that they fought each other. In March or April last, Yen found it to his own interest to

befriend Feng, being afraid that Feng might cross over to

Wen Ch'eng Chen (Ho Tung), which is a very important commercial

centre in Shansi. Consequently he had to promise help to Feng.

Some of Feng's troops have crossed to the north of the Yellow

River.

Yen Shi-shan and Chiang Kai-shek.

10. In June, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek wired to Yen suggesting

three alternative plans. The first was that Yen should attack

Peking; the second was that Yen should unite with Chiang to

attack Feng; and the third was that if Feng should show any

disposition towards the Bolshevists, Yen should unite with

Chang Tso-lin to attack him and try to drive him to Hankow.

None of these alternatives has materialized.

Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang.

11. At the meeting held at Hsuchow on the 20th June, 1927,

Chiang Kai-shek asked Feng Yu-hsiang to attack Hankow. Feng

replied that he would do so; but he must require that, in the

first instance, Borodin should be asked to leave Hankow, that

the Wuhan Government should be requested to purge itself of all

Bolshevist elements, and that Chiang should supply him with the

necessary money and ammunition for the attack. At that time

Hsu Ch'ien, the notorious Bolshevist, was at Chengchow

Yen Shi-shan's Real Disposition

12.

Yen does not want Feng Yu-hsiang's troops to get too

near to Shansi. He said to Teng somewhat to this effect: "If

you are an enemy of the Bolshevists, you should try to get to

Hankow. If you wish to attack Fengti enites, you had better