In Nanking they say, that the leaders of the' Southern coalition will be Tang Chi-yao, Chen Chiung-ming and Lu Yung-hsiang. By concerted action they will make things lively for Wu Pei-fu's subordinates and agents in Szechuan, Hunan, Kiangsi, Fukien and things. He is actually buying a Kuangtung. Nanking believes that the friendly overtures which Chen's subordinates are now making to Shen Hung-ying in Canton are a blind and that when they have recovered their organization and have rid themselves, with Shen's help, of Dr. Sun and his followers, they will turn on the Kuangsi men, when Chen Chiung-ming himself will return from Hongkong _and take command. Tang Chi-yao will invade Hunan through Kueichow and reach the Yangtze where it 1s now least protected, between Yochow and Ichang. He will also send the usual looting parties into Szechuan to turn confusion into chaos in that province. Lu Yung-hsiang will keep Kiangsu busy with hostile demonstrations, knowing that he is not likely to elicit anything more terrible than counte gestures, and concentrate upon Fukien and Kiangsi, in which latter province he can possibly cut
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