General Liu, like Marshal Wu Pei-fa, puts the whole responsibility for starting the war upon General Lu Yung-hsiang. Asked for' some nccount of the beginnings of the fray he retold the story of the wandering. and marauding Anfuites from Fokien and their adoption by General Lu. He told how they had perpetrated all manner of outrages in Fukien and had been defeated and out by Generals Sun Ch'uanfang and Chou Yin-jen; how they had then fled into Kiangsi, committing outrages ax they went, how they had attempted to invade Anhui fon the same errand and how, after a defeat in Anhui, they had crossed the Chekiang border and been re-
He said that in receiving these marauders and in not disarming.
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