An anti "red" gunner ready to load a stokes trench-mortar. At the time the warring parties are divided into two group, on the one side, the northern "anti-Red" allies, Chang Tso-lin, Wu Pei-fu, and Sun Chuan-fang; and on the other side the Cantonese under Chiang Kai-sheh (with Russian advisers), who have established themselves at Hankow and are expected to threaten Shanghai.