The end of the year saw an effort among the various groups of militarists to get' together—that is, all except the Mintang leaders: and the Shanghai government. Yunnan sent delegates to Shanghai. The Premier made efforts to bring about a peace conference in Shanghai whicl: would be fairly representative. There was a feeling that the victory of Chen Chiung-ming would not result in the re-establishment of another Centra] Government in Canton. Then, the President issued a mandate declaring the country unified and calling for the election of a Parliament in aecgrdance with the Provisional Constitution. The only result was to antagonize all groups. On November 25, Tang Shao-yi, Sun Yat-sen and Wu Ting-fang, left for Canton to establish a government. This was in direct conflict with the decision of the people of the province to limit themselves to governing their own province.
During the last month of the year very little happened in Canton or Peking, except that in the former city a struggle arose between Chen Chiung-ming and Sun Yat-sen over the conflict of opinion indicated above.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.