The Archive · 1929

The Punitive Mandate

Arm Order fo March Upon Wuhan We reproduce below a translation the mumdate signed by Gen, Chiang Kai-shek and the chairmen of the five Yuan of the National Government ordering ye expedition against Wuhan, ting, Generals Li Chums sen and Pei Chung-hsi ordering their arrest and punish ment. The mandate reads:—

"The National Government, harbouring peaceful actives, has done its utmost to preserve the " peaes and, to this end, pardoned the recent hal step taken by the Waka out permission from the, National Government, and mobilised troops for an attack on Hunan, The National Government. apart from ordering self-moved" troops te withdraw to their original garrisons, Migmissed the military and political cials who were found to be for the Hunan affair that the rebellious lealers might come to their senses.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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