Reference has been made in various places to the province of Szechuan, which is so enormous and is so distant from the principal centres in China that some separate consideration must be given to it. The year opened with Szechuan faced with an' enormous unemployed population and large armies of mercenaries who could not be disbanded, as there were no industries for them in the cities. On January 16, a mutiny took place in Chengtu with the result that Geners Yang Chuan-fang, took poss sion of the city, 'To raise fund: the militarists (26th) decided to collect six years' land tax in advance.
On February 20, General Yang Sen, a supporter of Marshal $Vu Pei-fu, left Hankow for Changsha, to commence hit campaign for the recovery of Szechuan on behalf of Marshal Wu Pei-fu. On March 6,"he appeared at Wanhsien, there 10,000 troops recognized him as leader. On May 21, he had'ao arranged his able to attack General Yang's Kueichow, army in Szechuan. The struggle which followed kept Szechuan in disorder during the remainder of the veal "Anti-Christianity in Szechuan had always been more virile than elsewhere.
Szechuan was also anti-foreign.
The Wanhsien incident, to which reference has already been made, gave the anti-Christians and anti-foreign agitators, a war cry which they used effectively. On September.27, the British colony in Chungking was wrecked" by an anti-foreign uprising. During October and November, Kuomintang and agitators keep the anti-British boycott alive in this province.
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