. The fight for the republic in China. AiKW Ri;.\U OK of Till-; XaTIONAI. SlT-TINC AS A XaTIOXAI, Exc:A(;KI) on rilK DllAKT or THE Coxstititiox. Ikoto- GllAPHEl) BY PeRMISSIOX OK THE SPEAKEHS KOK THE Presext Work REPUBLIC IN CHINA 53 The campaign was short and inglorious. The South,ill-furnished with munitions and practically penniless,and always confronted by the same well-trained North-ern Divisions who had proved themselves invincible onlyeighteen months before, fought hard for a while, butnever became a serious menace to the Cen
. The fight for the republic in China. AiKW Ri;.\U OK of Till-; XaTIONAI. SlT-TINC AS A XaTIOXAI, Exc:A(;KI) on rilK DllAKT or THE Coxstititiox. Ikoto- GllAPHEl) BY PeRMISSIOX OK THE SPEAKEHS KOK THE Presext Work REPUBLIC IN CHINA 53 The campaign was short and inglorious. The South,ill-furnished with munitions and practically penniless,and always confronted by the same well-trained North-ern Divisions who had proved themselves invincible onlyeighteen months before, fought hard for a while, butnever became a serious menace to the Central Gov-ernment owing to the lack of co-operation between thevarious Rebel forces in the field. The Kiangse troopsunder General Li Lieh-chun, who numbered at most20,000 men, fought stiffly, it is true, for a while but wereunable to strike with any success and were graduallydriven far back from the river into the mountains ofKiangse where their numbers rapidly melted redoubtable revolutionary Huang Hsin, who hadproved useful
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