Canton, Apr. 25.
A week of kaleidoscopic changes in the situation here, following upon Dr. Sun Yat-sen's arrival at Wuchow, has resulted in a complete politico] victory for the old guard of the Kuomingtang, but has also Janded that organization in a cul de sac, from which it is difficult to imagine an exit.
The expedition came from Kueilin for a number of obvious reasons. Kuangsi was hostile in the first place and Kueilin was an impossible bassa for a military expedition with the torrential Fu River as the only line of communications, Yunnan and' Kueichow withdrew their support in the second place, after the return of Tang Chi-yao to his own capital, a situation which no amount of amiable telegraphic correspondence between Canton and Yunnanfu could ameliorate after Li Lich-chun's Kueichou and Yunnan forces had withdrawn and reduced tha force by about 15,000. In the third place Chen Chiung-ming was consistently withholding military, financial and moral support. In the fourth place Hunan would not agree to give the expedition right of way down the Siang River to the Yangtze. The special expeditionary currency in which the troops were paid did not appeal to the Kuangsi or Hunan folk and could only be passed by force majeure. This did not make the expedition friords. Granting, therefore, that Dr. Sun and his generals had not enough acumen to know what everyone else has known for months, that an expedition based on Kueilin would not got far, there were plenty of other reasons for the expedition's return.
It was something of a loss of face. To recover face both at home and among the newly acquired allies in the north, it was essential that the expedition should start at once from a new base and that it should be strengthened by the addition of Chen Chiung-ming's troops with or without Chen himself. Dr. Sun and his advisers came back to do one of two things, to force Chen's adference as a subordinate, or to force him out. They have arrived at the latter objective, to their immediate satisfaction but to their Jastin, consternation on second thought.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.