"As a result of the revolt without his orders, General Chen Chiung-ming has refused openly to enter into public life again. He is still at Waichow and Sheklung, and refuses to go further towards Canton because, as I say, his subordinates refused to obey his wishes. which were that no force should be used.
"One cause, in my opinion, for the revolt was that there were no personal meetings between Dr. Sun and General Chen. They did not see each other. Each man evaded the other. Just before the outbreak Dr. Sun was about to proceed to Waichow, but evidently his had advisers urged him not to do 80 as it might mean a loss of face; he, therefore, immediately cancelled his proposed trip."
Touching on the anti-northern armies, Dr. Chen said that General Chen did not favour the anti-northern campaign and refused take part in it. Here again, Dr. Sun accepted all sorts of ragamuffins to fight for him, men who are not trained in military tactics, robbers, etc. The weakness of the anti-northern armies is that they have no ammunition. With the return of part of the troops to Kuangtung from Kiangsi, matters are made worse.
Dr. Chen declined to make any comment on the return of the anti-northern armies further than this or of their meeting General Chen's troops in battle. He did mention, however, that there was some truth in the report that General Li Hou-chi, Tuchun of Fukien, was rendering General Chen assistance. General Li has done this before. when he helped Chen to drive the Kvangsi party away from Canton.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.