Thencetorth, with a few exciting interludes in which the com= plicated politico-military situation was straightened out, Marshal Sun was jin control of Shanghat until the spring of 1927. The end came as. dramatically as the beginning. One Saturday night towards the end of March, there came alarming. news of the' appearance of troops from the south vaguely referred to as Cantonese, and who had gained great successes at Changsha and Hankow, With the news of the advance there emerged new names now associated with the Nanking Government. On the same Saturday night, it was reported that they had been checked. Monday told a different story. -Marshal Sun had retreated rapidly up the Shanghai-Nanking Railway towards Nanking and the Nationalist forces were in occupation, and have been ever since.
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