A Small Compact Force Suspecting Everybody But Itself Tt has only been a few months since General Chiang Kai-ok, with his new and highly centralized army, overwhelmed with great ease the last is opponents in Kuangtung and honed a large group of Kuangsi-ites into a declaration of loyalty. 'We has by no means consolidated als position in either province—but he' is already obsessed with the usual. Chinese hunger for fiefs and dependents. He is straining Kuangsi's doubtful loyalty by forcing participa. tion la a campaign against whick the Kuangsi leaders were strongly' opposed: He has his vassal 'T'ang Sheng-chih operating in Hunan as a dependant chieftain and his. vassal Lal Shih-huang kicking up his heels in Kiangsi, Soon he will have other: gents and allies in other provinces id he will be boasting in the press about the size of his. kingdom and the number of his armies, as Wu and Chang now do, while his hold upon hhis own growing force weakens, while his subordinates develop am: ditions and conspire for his overthrow, and while Kuangtung, only' hal€ subdued, boils over behind him.
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