Either Chang Fa-kuei's fighting force actually lacks the numbers oF the equipment needed for launch-Ing an assault on Canton, or else he wanting in confidence, for he has been playing an extremely eau-tious game. In this he has proved himself quite a strategist, keeping the Kuangtung High Command ever guessing. But to en outsider Keeping close touch on these mili tary movements, it looks as if it were the strategy of the commander of a vastly weaker fo In mere numbers, the Ironsides must surpass their opponents, but General Chang craves a larger army still, Everywhere he hi gone, ho has allied the banditti, the radicals, the standards. One column just sent away from Canton, and into the East River Disteict where hho should be highly successful in ming up a vast horde of cutthroats and the lawless of all kinds. Not only' will the Chu-mo Reds, and those who are flying the Red flag openly the Hoifung and Lukfung dis-rush to espouse the cause of Chang Fa-kuei, bat indubitably the old Kuangtung Governor Chen Kuing-ming has thousands down that way in his home territory who will flock to the camp of the man Who offers them chance to put their old leader in the public eye again.
What the Kuangtung troops lack in man power, they have made up for by the skilful employment of their military stores. Bfine fields and bombs and machine-guns have been made to do their share of the work of stemming the oncoming tide of invasion. " Chang ' Fa-kuei has needed to bring out his whole bag of tricks to overcome this vantage, but évereome it he has to a considerable extent.
The eyes of the Kuangtung army, the scout planes have brought in reliable reports whenever they have een able to sco.a trace of the enemy, but frequently a part the opposing troops have been completely lost from view. They have marched only at night, and kept under cover during the daytime to avoid detection from the air.
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