General Chang Fa-kuei who took! the first step in the present trouble, has had a remarkable career. He was one of the seven armies which, came out of Canton and swept to the Yangtze Valley. - His army did remarkable fighting and was regarded by the Russians.as one of fest in China. However, in the fighting in Honan in 1926 and early {in 1927, againat the Fengtien forces, he lent half of his men. The Tron Army then made its way back to. Canton. In November 1927, this army became involved in the cow? @'éat in Canton which resulted in a fearful Communist revolution there.
Chang Fa-kuei was rather discredit: ed and was foreed to retire for some time. However, General Chiang Kai-shek used the 4th Army in the Northern Expedition where it. did remarkable fighting between Hsuchow fu and Tsining, resulting in General Sun Chuan-fang's defeat. Daring the recent campaigns against Kuangsi and against General Feng Vu-hsiang, General Chang Fa-Kuei was able to do such services for Nanking as to make General Chiang's victory inevitable.
Although; General Chang Fa-kiel supported General Chiang Kai-shek, was only because he opposed General Chiang's opponents more, It was always known that he would take political basis, he and the Kuangsi generals can unite, except opposition to General Chiang and a desire to take Canton,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.