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who are to all intents and purposes Communists. Briefly, it may be explained that the "Western Hill"

party is that clique which clings to the resolutions

adopted by the first general assembly of the Kuo-min-

tang. Their principal representative in South China is General Hui Sung-chi. The left wing is

generally identified with Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, whose

adherents favoured the resolutions adopted by the

second general assembly of the Kuo-min-tang, from

which the "Western Hill" clique was excluded.

2.

The recent civil war between the provinces

of Kwangtung and Kwangsi has so far passed through three phases. The first phase was an attack by the

Kwangsi leaders upon Kwangtung, with the hope of

For

capturing Canton by a sudden coup de main.

this purpose it was planned that the Kwangsi army,

under its principal leaders, Pai Chung-hsi, Li Tsung-

jen and Wong Shiu-hung, should advance into Kwangtung

down the valley of the West River to Samshui, and that at the same time their Cantonese adherents, namely, the eastern command in Kwangtung under the Cantonese

general, Tsui King-t'ong, based upon Swatow, should

advance through Wai chow down the East River.

was thus to be a concerted attack upon Canton by

fairly considerable bodies of troops from the west

and from the east. In order to meet these attacks,

the Cantonese armies would have to be concentrated at

points many miles distant from Canton, both to the

west

There