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retired to Liuchow, one of the centres of the new road system of the province and to Sun-chow (Kweiping) on the West River, and for a while no serious attempt was made to eject them. It would seem probable that General Yü Tsok-p'ak, the newly appointed Governor of Kwangsi province, prefers to try the effect of diplomacy before taking harsher measures, the more so as the fall of Harshal Feng Yu-hsiang, if it should come, will deprive the Kwangsi party of the last hope of assistance.
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fact the press of the 26th June contained a report from official sources to the effect that further
disintegration of the Kwangsi troops had already begun. On the 22nd June, it is alleged, the commander of the Sun-chow Garrison opened the city gates and admitted the Central Government forces. The report adds that Generals Pai and Wong have abandoned their armies and taken refuge in French Indo-China.
2. The campaign in Kwangsi is now being conducted entirely by Yu Tsck-pak and Ho Kin with the aid of the Cantonese Navy and Air Force, the Cantonese armies being all retained in Kwangtung. Of these the troops under Chan Toal-tong are now stationed in Canton itself and in the North River region, while the attack on watow is being carried out by troops under Cheung Kwong-nai and Tsoi Ting-kai, subordinates of General Chan ing-shů.
3. The army of the Eastern region, which was formerly under the command of General Tsui King-t'ong, took a prominent part in what I have described in my despatch of 31st lays the first phase in the war.
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