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however, only a body of six thousand troops under

his personal command, half stationed in Canton and the

other half in Hainan island and the southern region

The

of Kwangtung province known as the Ha-sz-fu.

only other Cantonese leader of note, who is willing

to take orders from Marshal Chiang is General Ch'an

Chai-t'ong, who was previously a subordinate of

Marshal Li Chai-sum, and who was paid a bribe of $700,000 by Harshal Chiang, in order to abandon his allegiance to the Kwangsi party. General Ch'an Chai-t'ong,who in the absence of General Ch'an Ming sha is acting as head of the Kwangtung

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administration, and whose headquarters at present are in Canton, has under his command a body of about twelve thousand troops; and his forces are under three Commanders, Heung Hon-ping, Yu Hon-mau and Ch'an Cheung-po, each of whom has from 4,000 to 5,000 men. The troops of Heung-Hon-ping are stationed on the West River near Canton.

of Yu Hon-mau are stationed on the North River, also in the vicinity of Canton. The troops of Ch'an Cheung-po are stationed in the zone of the Kowloon- Canton railway. The third prominent Cantonese General, Tsui -King-t'ong, is stationed at Swatow, and has under his command a body of fifteen thousand men, some at Swatow, some in the Ch'iu-chau district, and some on the frontier between Kwangtung and the Kiangsi and Fukien provinces. General Tsui has definitely refused to obey Harshal Chiang's order to attack Kwangsi. He has, in fact, intimated to

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