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gathered together at Wuchow on the West River.
They have not yet apparently agreed upon their future policy, and itis just possible that they may
after all abstain from participation in the civil
war. Mr. Wong said that General Pai Chung-hsi
was the one among them most anxious to fight, but they are all at present cut off from the Wuhan party by the fact that General Ho Chien, who holds Ch'angsha in Hunan province, has declared for the Nanking Government. The Kwangsi leaders also fear that, if they were to march northward, an incursion might be made into Kwangsi province by the Yunnanese under General Lung Wan, who is said
also to be a supporter of Nanking.
6. The Whole of the present trouble, according to Mr. Samuel Wong, has been precipitated by the "Christian General", Marshal Fêng Kü-hsiang, who at first led on the Kwang si generals to expect his full support in an attack on Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, but who has now been bought over to the side of the Nanking Government by the promise of
Marshal Shantung province as part of his domain. Fếng has, therefore, left the Kwangsi leaders in the lurch, and it is now expected that the Wuhan group will be eliminated within a very short space of time. No prominent leader of the Kwangsi group with any prestige is at present at Hankow, and General Pai Chung-hsi, much as he would like to do so, appears to be unable to get there in time.
A naval wireless message of the 2nd April, however, states that General Li Tsung-jen arrived in
Hankow on that day by aeroplane.
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