Great disappointment hax been felt bythe opponents, of General Tree that Cheung Patful hay not given whole-hearted support to the schemes and. plots of his ofo, But the general has shown bine to be a mun of a different stamp. On the evening of September 27, he Feturned to Canton from Hongkong, after an absence of some dave, and the same evening attended ban-nct given fu hit honour by. Lee Tralanm, General Cheuns showed am entire lak of conceit oot enmity for hin hart. Te professed wrest admiration for General Lee, and de: flared that, between the tio, the Mond of friendship should be moat strong. Tu making ch a sates mont, he lits shown the conjectures at the political forecasters to have Tore than an clement of truth. Tu their opinion, Cheung Fut-fal is not aod" not' rade and not ops owed to Lee Taai-tam oF to the government in Canton, but the very Spposite in true of most ateers, who are out of hand, and fre running things pretty much to salt themselves 1E, would seem that the "Western Hill" mmombers of the. Kuomintang gave the neseassry financial support fo enable the Fourth and. Eleventh return to. Kuangtung. has. Tost whatever Popularity he may have ad. with ther ulto-conservative Party mer bees, and, rvorting to a time-hon-cured Chinese method, those who rare the "Western isi" insurgents adopted the plan of playing one Teader against another. He who has held the balance of power it Canton for so long a time is feared by the conservatives, who have not forgiven General Lee for turning against Chiang Kai-shek, and for putting province above country. By means ile these conservatives love Cheung Fat-ful, but they do not believe him to be s0 dangerous a person as is the incumbent Kuangtung leader.
The Mark of Mankow The influence of Hankow plainly is visible; the subordinates of the "second Army Director," a they. choose to call General Cheung, do not conceal the fact that they have no use for the government at Naning, and are proud of their conneetion with the Hankow regime. The new-comers have been urged to drop the name "Second Arms," which in itself savors of Hankow, but without avail.
Cheung Fat-ful's men still look upon themselves as the Second Army of Hankow rather than as constituting the Fourth and Eleventh Armies of the Nanking government,
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