Shansi is impoverished and short of ammunition and other essential supplies. The Nanking expedition crippled in the: North by the Japanese barrier on the railway at Tsinanfu. Fengtien can be safely eliminated for at least a year and no one believes that the Wu-Han folk dare make war north of the Yellow River even if Peng resigns Honan to them without opposition, There is nothing therefore to pro-vent Feng Vu-hsiang from breaking. faith with his allies hero in: the North even while voi sturdiest adherence to the Three Principles, posing as a pillar of the Kuomintang and insisting that he is Nanking's loyalist and most obedient servant. The prospect having a hostile Wu-Han to the south of him' was only a menace while he had to face Fengtien on. the Kin-Han line, rely upon Han-as his port and think of Shensi as his back door. With Tientsin as his port, Peking his administrative centre and Kalgan again his back door, he would be in a much stronger position than in Honan and could turn and face his only:
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