Another inspiring feature of the situation is the fashion in which bots, Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin have alt with highly placed but doubt. ful adherents. "The tradition of disloyalty has been strongly endorsed by precedent in Chinese military circles, but the impression is again gong the rounds that disloyalty does not pay. Fong Vu-hsiang, the arch. exponent of the science of rising to greatness through treachery, is a Aiscredited exile, relying for what-fever influence "he retains ujjon foreign material and moral support in a movement that is now general conceived of as disruptive and anti-Chinese. Kuo Sung-ling is dead and signation while his braves packed their belongings and set out for {the front under Wu Pei-fu's orders without even a show of resentment. This adjustment was easier than Jappeared on the surface _because nearly all of the men and a fair proportion of -the officeers in Li's army were recruited from Wu's own divisions after the Shanghaikuan [debacle in 1924.
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