As it was, the Kuangtung troops wore withdrawn easily enough, yet not too soon at that; they had hardly started for the border, when the announcement came that Lui Wun-yirn had taken to his bosom _his old rivals Wong Shao-hung and Li Chung-jen, and all three declared that they had no use for the head of the Central Government, Chiang]
Fears have been entertained that! General Chen Chi-tang would tura gainst the national government head; that his antipathy for Chen Ming-shu, the civil head of the] Kuangtung Government would aet-nate him. But while the two Chens are basically unfriendly, each ical ous of the other, of entirely ditter-out parties, there is little likelihood, the better-informed think, of an} open split at this time. ' Neither can afford to play into the hands of Chang Fa-kuei, for it would spell his own elimination from Kuang. tung politics, Chang Fa-kuei will be the Number 1, or nothing at all It is not a question of either Chen. king the other Chen the less, "but of both hating this third man the more than they hate each other.
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