Since the execution of the coup which unseated Li Hou-chi, this Wang Yung-chuan has become the recognized leader of the subordinate northern commanders who were left in the lurch in Fukien when the old Tuchun fled without attempting to make a stand and he is now a very important figure upon whose attitude so much pends that it would take much space to explain.
Immediately after Little Hsu's coup, Wu Pei-fu, by way of recovering his hold upon Fukien, dealing adequately with the rebels and cooperating with Shen Hung-yin in his projected descent Sun Ch'uan-fang himself is of rather mediocre calibre. Nevertheless, he moved down river as far as Kiukiang, paused to organize his expedition and_ then, after much urging from Loyang, contrived to move it diagonally southeast across the province Kiangsi to the Fukien border, an operation which consumed most of the past winter. Hero there was a pause for negotiations with Wang Yung-chuan which were 80 far successful that Sun Ch'uanfang was able to enter Fukien and commence the business of occupation without fighting and apparently with Wang Yung-ch'uan's cooperation. This could not but disturb General Lu Yung-hsiang of Chekiang. He found himself, loyal follower of Tuan Chi-jui, an opponent of Wu Pei-fu. and the governor of an "autonomous" province, between Sun Chuanfang and his big following on the south and Chi Hsieh-yuan, an ally of Tsao Kun and_ therefore a nominal ally of Wu Pei-fu, on the north.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.