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 important changes in the situation are to be noted, among them being:

1. The occupation of Wuchang and Hankow by Cantonese troops, whereby the revolutionary forces have spread out in Central China.

2. Consolidation of the Left wing of the Kuomintang. Thanks to mass pressure, the C. C, of the Kuomintang has adopted a resolution calling upon Wang Ting-Wei to resume his position.

3. A leftward turn of the Kuomintang centrists as a result of which there is the chance that this wing can work together with the Left.

4. The movement for the re-admission of the expelled Kuomintang members who formed a group, a fraction, last year in Sischan, near Peking.

5. The official organizational relationship between the People's Armies of Feng-Yu-hsiang and the Canton Government,

6. The victories of the II, III and V People's Armies and the occupation of Kiangsi province and its capital Sianfu.

7. The broadening of the organization of the Communist Party of China.

8. The new boom in the labor movement of Hankow and the new strikes in Shanghai, etc.

9. The rapid development of the peasant movement in the provinces of Kwantung and Honan.

10. The disorders and uprisings of the well-known "League of Red Spears" in the provinces of Honan, Shantung, and Chipli.

11. Formation of organizations of intermediate and small merchants in the towns of Shanghai, Hankow, Canton, etc.

12. The sympathy of the bourgeoisie in Shanghai for the Canton revolutionary government.

13. The differentiation within the military cliques in the provinces of Szechuan, Kweichow, Honan, Cheklang, etc.