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Meanwhile, the bulk of Li's tattered Nationalist regime streamed into raucous, reeking Canton, where it went through the motions of setting up shop...
...Premier Sun Fo's first press conference in Canton, he denied a rumored rift between himself and Li: "Technically, the capital remains in Nanking. The government is just functioning in a different place...
...notice tacked up in Canton's Oikwan Hotel summed up China's week: "Please pay tip. Life is difficult...
...means to improve the present situation?" Everybody in China, including Li, knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
...time consuming, involves infiltration of certain sections by Chinese Communists who work to prepare the population of these areas to receive Communist troops, rather than to help Nationalist troops fight them. "By this means of warfare," Fairbank noted, "it will take another year for the Communists to get to Canton...