Nanking, Mar. 29, The following official communique was issued yesterday at midnight:—"ko National Government of the Chinese Republic after exhausting its patience, snd all pacific means of persuasion has accepted the cholo Tenge of the Kwangsi clique. wily be reralled that without even consulting the National Government, the Wu-han branch of the Central Political Council began its program. me of truculence by dismissing the chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government and appointing its own nominee, Then they advanced their troops into Hunan despite the orders of the National Government—to withdraw, Still doing its utmost to awaken the Kuangs! generals to a sense of their own responsibility the National Government started to post its troops as a matter of pre~ caution along the borders of Kiangsi, Hupeh and Hunan, The Kuang. si generals however disdained all reminders. Without any warning they marched their troops into Kiangsi_and Anhui and attacked those of the National Government, "Confronted: by such brazen-faced disobedience and flouting of the Central Government's authority, the 'Third National Congress has' unanimously voted to empower the National Government to take drastic counter measures, The National Government is, therefore, despatch ing: a punitive expedition to suppress the rebellion of the Kuangsi faction and, in the meanwhile, has relieved Li Chung-jen, Ti Chiesen and Pele Chung-hsi of all their offices. Unless the Kuomintang is to be disrupted, the rebellion must be quelled, The die is cast and the National Government cannot turn back until the Kuangsi generals are defeated and the country is against united under the same Kuomintang bamner.!—Kuo Min,
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