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"While militarily supporting the Federation of South Africa, and finding more things to do for Britain, isn't Ireland making trouble! Then set a fire in the backyard of the UK! ”

Wang Chenhao's words immediately woke everyone up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info╔╗

Wang Shizhen immediately said: "Your Majesty is wise, if the fire is lit in Ireland, Britain will definitely be busy extinguishing the backyard fire, so the military operation in the South African Federation will have no energy." ”

Duan Qirui said: "With the strong financial resources and advanced technology of the empire, it is not a problem to support the Federation of South Africa. The key is whether the Empire will replace Britain in the interest vacuum of South Africa after the Federation of South Africa. ”

Lin Jianzhang smiled: "That's very simple! Just make the war in South Africa more intense! ”

Wang Chenhao asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Lin Jianzhang hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister's meaning is to let South Africa and Britain fight to the death, and from then on form an indissoluble hatred, then after South Africa, it is impossible for the British to retain their interests in South Africa, and only we have the ability to support South Africa's economic reconstruction after the war." ”

Wang Chenhao understood what Lin Jianzhang meant, nodded and said, "Makes sense!" Let South Africa and Britain die, our empire can still do it. However, there is one factor that needs to be considered, that is, the main force of the three provinces of the Union of South Africa is still the local British gentry and merchants, and there are variables in the tangled between cutting and untidy. ”

"Your Majesty's concerns are not unreasonable!" Wang Shizhen said at this time: "Maybe one day they will compromise with the British, and then there will be no people inside and outside the empire, and it will be bad." ”

Duan Qirui sighed: "It would be nice if the Soviet Union came forward!" As in the case of Egypt and the Vietnam War, the problem could be solved if the Soviet Union was to stir up the bourgeoisie and the socialist revolution would wipe out the local bourgeoisie. ”

Everyone nodded. This is indeed the merit of the USSR. On the battlefields of Egypt and Indochina, it was the Comintern who uprooted the local bourgeoisie. This led to the complete fall of the local bourgeoisie to the Chinese Empire. They regained lost interests through the hands of the Chinese Empire, which in turn used their hands to drive out the British and French forces and take control of the region. Both sides have common enemies and interests, and that is how to be stable.

Wang Chenhao sighed: "But I heard that the Comintern did not succeed in South Africa. The armed forces they supported were suppressed, so we could not count on the USSR either. ”

Wang Shizhen suddenly said, "Your Majesty." The Soviet Union and the Comintern were merely an excuse, and they did not necessarily have to act directly. ”

Wang Chenhao asked suspiciously, "What do you mean?" ”

Wang Shizhen paused and sorted out his thoughts. ╔╗ then explained: "Your Majesty. The minister meant that the empire could intervene in South Africa by force under the banner of the International of Industry. ”

Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said: "This is indeed a way, but this is a bit far-fetched, all countries understand that this is an unjust war waged by the empire to see the gold and diamonds of South Africa, and it has not eliminated the negative impact of the empire." ”

Duan Qirui suddenly had an inspiration and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, but don't worry." The minister already has a way! ”

Wang Chenhao and the others immediately turned to Duan Qirui and asked him to speak out quickly.

Duan Qirui bought a pass. Then he explained to Wang Chenhao: "Your Majesty, isn't there still a League of Nations?" One of the provisions of the League of Nations was to uphold the refusal of war and the preservation of regional peace, and the Empire could intervene in the South African civil war under the banner of the League of Nations on the pretext of maintaining regional stability. ”

Lin Jianzhang asked: "But the League of Nations doesn't have an army?" Just verbal talk and opposition have no effect at all! ”

Wang Shizhen also said: "Yes! Since its establishment, the League of Nations has been an ornament, and that war has not played a key role, and in the hearts of people all over the world, the League of Nations has been ignored. ”

Duan Qirui said: "Then let's form an international coalition army!" Since the empire sending troops alone will make other countries gossip, then pull them all up and gag them. ”

Lin Jianzhang was stunned and said: "Old Duan, you don't want to have another Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against Britain!" ”

Duan Qirui smiled: "Lao Lin, you are too smart!" I really have that idea! ”

Wang Chenhao thought in his heart that it was a good idea to intervene in the South African civil war under the banner of industry and international. The purpose of the Chinese Empire was to suppress the economic development of Britain, and the military intervention in South Africa alone was likely to be condemned by international public opinion, and if an international coalition was formed to let other countries share the interests of South Africa equally, then they would not gossip, and they would spare no effort to help the Chinese Empire to put small shoes on the British together.

Seeing Wang Chenhao pondering, Wang Shizhen said slowly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks this plan is feasible. The formation of an international coalition to intervene in the South African civil war was the best excuse for the Empire and other countries to intervene in the circle of South African interests. Once the international coalition forces enter South Africa, regardless of whether the South African Federation wins or the British Commonwealth wins, it will be difficult to drive the international coalition forces out again. As long as the international coalition is nailed to South African soil, interests there are guaranteed. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said: "South Africa is a big piece of fat, and it is a well-known thing that all countries want to get involved. The formation of an international coalition to divide the interests of South Africa equally would not only enhance the central leadership of the empire among the nations, but also suppress Britain and cut off its economic lifeline. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded again and again, and finally said, "Yes!" ”

Everyone immediately said: "Your Majesty is wise! ”

Wang Chenhao then ordered the imperial guard room to call the Prime Minister's Office and the National Assembly respectively, and summoned Tang Shaoyi and other officials from five provinces and nine ministries to the palace to discuss countermeasures. ╔╗

After everyone arrived, Wang Chenhao told everyone about the strategic deployment he had just studied, which was unanimously approved by Tang Shaoyi and others.

In the end, after the supplementary suggestions of Tang Shaoyi and other senior officials, the Chinese Empire finally decided to form a coalition in the League of Nations to prepare for armed intervention in the South African civil war. However, before that, the Chinese Empire will actively contact the top level of the South African Federation and provide a large amount of war funds and weapons and equipment supplies to the South African Federation to support South Africa. At the same time, the Chinese Empire also sent a special envoy to visit Ireland secretly to meet with Eamon, the leader of the Irish Labour Party, to express the Chinese Empire's support for Ireland.

Eamon's Irish Labour Party was founded in 1912 at the outbreak of world war. He has been committed to the movement in Ireland and is now under the leadership of the Labour Party. The revolutionary movement in Ireland was on the rise, and it already had a mass base for war. There was only a lack of military equipment and funds for the anti-British struggle.

The arrival of the envoy of the Chinese Empire. Gave hope to Aemon and the Irish Labour Party. After negotiations, the Chinese Empire promised to provide Ireland with 5 million dragon coins in funds, as well as 15 million dragon coins worth of weapons and equipment, including 10 cat demon fighters. 20 M10 combat vehicles, 56 75-mm infantry guns. 16 155mm heavy howitzers, as well as 500 light and heavy machine guns and 40,000 M11 rifles, as well as hundreds of military vehicles and medical supplies. The Chinese Empire promised to send military advisers to the Irish Army. Directing the Irish Army in combat.

In return. The Irish Labor Party said that Ireland would establish a comprehensive strategic partnership with the Chinese Empire, and at the same time lease Bantry Bay, Ireland's largest deep-water port, to the Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy as an anchorage, and allow the Chinese Empire to build naval and air bases on Hudyi Island in Bantry Bay.

The island of Ireland is the second largest island in Europe, separated from the British island of Britain by the Irish Channel. The coast of the island of Ireland is tortuous, facing the Atlantic coast with many bays deep inland. Many natural harbors. The port of Bantry Bay is wide and has an average water depth of 40 meters, which can accommodate any giant vessel. It has a temperate oceanic climate. Warm and humid, with little snow in winter, there are deposits of peat, coal, lead, zinc and apatite. Whitty Island is the only island located in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland. It is about 5.5 kilometers (3.5 miles) long from northeast to southwest and about 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) wide. Monuments on the island include an old castle, Kilmore Church and three 19th-century British naval station forts.

During the World War, in order to prevent the German landing on the British mainland, the British Royal Navy planned to use the island of Ireland and the British island as horns to support each other. 1000 fighters and 200 bombers can be stationed, and the airfield runway allows simultaneous take-off and landing of 20 aircraft. The naval base pier has a powerful coastal fortress artillery fortification, and there are six naval piers, which can accommodate 120 warships.

At the same time, Britain relied on oil from the Atlantic, and built an oil terminal on the west coast of the base on Hudyan Island, which could store 300,000 tons of oil, which was then transshipped to refineries in Western Europe. This oil storage station was also handed over to the Chinese Empire free of charge, directly solving the energy problem needed by the Chinese Empire to set up a naval and air base here.

It can be said that the military and economic value of Bantry Bay and Wheely Island are only significant for Ireland, which has only agriculture and animal husbandry.

The Irish Labour Party promised this to the Chinese Empire, showing Eamon's determination and sincerity, so the Chinese Empire quickly replied that it would fully support Eamon's Irish Labour Party in his bid for Ireland and support Emmon as the first president of Ireland. The Chinese Empire promised to bring in the weapons and equipment needed by the Irish Army from its bases in Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean within a week.

In February 1924, under the pretext that the escalating Irish movement was at risk for the safety of the citizens of the Chinese Empire who had invested in tourism on the island of Ireland and the British islands, the battleships Li Shimin and Wu Zetian, the aircraft carrier Longhushan CV-35, and six Typhoon-class Aegis air defense cruisers, four Rainstorm-class hunting ships, and two Qinghaihu-class large supply ships visited the United Kingdom.

The British authorities understood that this was the Chinese Empire pressuring Britain to ensure that the interests of the Chinese Empire in Great Britain and the island of Ireland were not affected. The British Government agreed to the request of the Chinese Empire and ordered the British Admiralty to send an invitation to the Chinese Empire to formally invite the Second Detachment of the Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy to visit Britain, and the navies of the two countries agreed to hold joint military exercises during the one-week visit.

But what the British did not know was that the Chinese Empire sent a fleet to visit Britain was not just a demonstration to the British Navy to put pressure on the British Government, and the weapons and equipment that the Chinese Empire promised to give to the Irish Labour Party were also transported along with the fleet.

On 8 February, the Imperial Chinese Navy and the British Royal Navy held a joint naval exercise in the Irish Channel, during which the Imperial Chinese Navy secretly handed over the weapons and equipment needed by the Irish Labour Party to Emmon.

As early as a week earlier, after receiving the promise of the Chinese Empire, Aemon had immediately organized the Labor Party to prepare for war. The Irish Labour Party has rallied more than 30,000 young Irish to join the Irish National Army. And began rigorous military training. With the help of the Chinese Imperial Advisors, they made rapid progress. But Aemon seemed to be unable to wait. What was originally a three-month crash training program. In the end, it was lowered to 15 days by Eamon, and the Irish Army only learned how to shoot and fire, how to drive tanks and planes, etc., and the subjects of tactical command, infantry and artillery coordination, infantry and tank coordination, and air-ground coordination were directly abandoned.

Of course. This doesn't blame Aemon for being in a hurry, because he can't help it. The reason was that the British authorities already knew that Aemon and his Irish Labour Party were preparing an armed rebellion. Therefore, the British side is also stepping up preparations. Ironically, the British authorities did not think that action should be taken during the Imperial Chinese Navy's visit, as that would create a pretext for further intervention by the Chinese Empire. Meantime. The British authorities were also naïve enough to believe that joint military exercises with the Chinese Empire would deter the Irish movement.

In response to the escalating violence in Ireland. Britain has also responded in an increasingly tough way. ╔╗

Due to the disarmament treaty of the Five-Power Pact and the post-war financial constraints of Britain, Britain's domestic troops were not large, and a large number of British troops were involved in the colonies, especially India and South Africa, and the British army had very few troops on its own territory.

At the same time, the British Parliament was reluctant to deploy more British regular troops in Ireland. As a result, the UK has established two paramilitary police groups to supplement the security corps. The 7,000-strong "Black and Brown Force" was used to support the flagging Irish Security Corps. The unit, mostly British veterans demobilized after World War I, was first deployed in Ireland in March 1920. Most are from English and Scottish towns. Formally they are part of the security corps, but in reality they are a paramilitary force. After its deployment in March 1920, the unit quickly gained notoriety for drunkenness and indiscipline, and did more damage to the moral authority of the British Government in Ireland than any other group.

On 17 February, the Irish National Army, led by Eammon and the Irish Labour Party, formally declared war on the British, firing the first shot of the Irish War.

Since the British regular army was not in Ireland, in response to the actions of the Irish army, the black and brown troops attacked, but were violently responded by the Irish army's chariots and artillery, and the British security force, which did not have any heavy weapons, was suddenly defeated and was forced to retreat. In retaliation, this unscrupulous force immediately burned and plundered a large number of small towns in Ireland, including Balbrigan, Triem in County Meath, Temple, and many more, a move that further fueled anti-British sentiment in Ireland.

At the same time, another paramilitary police unit sent to Ireland by the British in July 1920, a reserve of 2,214 former British Army officers, whose reputation was as bad as the Black and Brown units because of the mistreatment of civilians, had no choice but to fight guerrilla warfare with the Irish Army without heavy weapons, burning and looting everywhere, arousing more Irish revolt.

On 20 February, the Irish Army's West Cork unit, at Tom? Barry's leadership ambushed a British Security Corps patrol at Kilmikel, County Cork, killing 264 British soldiers.

This operation marked the beginning of a sharp escalation of the conflict, and the strength of the Irish Army exceeded the imagination of the British authorities, and the British army decided to enter Ireland to suppress it.

The counties of Cork, Carey, Limerick and Tipperary in Munster province were all martial on 10 February. Soon after, the British Army's "Formal Suppression Army" operation was approved by the British Parliament, and 20,000 British troops marched into Ireland.

The Irish Parliament was adamantly opposed to the entry of British troops into Ireland, so the Parliament, which was controlled by Irish political parties, including the Republicans, decided to formally declare war on Britain.

The British immediately retaliated by burning the city centre of Cork to the british, and preventing firefighters from fighting the fire in retaliation for the Irish Parliament's official declaration of war on the British.

On March 19th, Tom? Barry's 1,000 combatant soldiers marched to Cross Barry and encountered 1,200 British troops in the area, leading to the first large-scale combat operation since the war began, the Battle of Crossbarry. ╔╗

The battle began, and the Irish army continued to rely on combat vehicles for assaults, which paid off. However, soon, the temporarily recruited Irish pilots flew the Cat Demon fighters to attack the British army, but because they had not conducted combat tactics training and the ground command was improper, the muzzles of the 10 Cat Demon fighters were aimed at the Irish soldiers. Bombs were dropped on the positions of the Irish Army, causing more than half of the Irish casualties on the spot.

The British immediately launched a counteroffensive. Quickly crush Tom's men. Won the first battle.

The Irish army was defeated because of the lack of training, which made the morale of the Irish army unstable, and the fighting spirit of many Irish soldiers was shaken.

Tom led the remnants of his troops back, and the warriors barely managed to remain surrounded and annihilated by the gathered British troops.

After 2 days. The Careyshire army attacked a train transporting British soldiers at the Headford crossing near Killaney, but the British received the news before the operation. As a result, the army was ambushed by the British, and 600 people were killed in the battle.

Aemon was aware of a very serious problem, and that was the pervasiveness of British control over Ireland. It is likely that a large number of Irish troops were mixed with British spies and Irish traitors. Emmon, who had never experienced intelligence warfare, was suddenly extremely sad. Fortunately, the Chinese Empire provided Aemon with some information, so that Aemon would not be killed by British agents, and the army quickly adjusted its tactics, abandoned large-scale operations, and switched to small-scale guerrilla warfare.

But the intelligence and agents of the British army were everywhere, and the army of Mayo County suffered the same fate at Kilmina. Before he could act, the leader was assassinated.

The Army's largest single-action losses occurred in Dublin. On 25 May, 1,000 members of the Army Dublin Brigade occupied and burned the Irish Local Government Centre at Custom House in the centre of Dublin. The move was used as a symbolic demonstration of the fragility of British rule in Ireland. However, from a military point of view, it was a fiasco, and the immediate consequence of the lone advance was that more than 100 troops were killed, more than 800 were taken prisoner, and less than 100 escaped.

This shows that although the army has received the help of the Chinese Empire in terms of equipment, it can compete with the British army. But in terms of training, it is not yet possible to confront the British army in the traditional sense.

However, this did not weaken Dublin's army, as the British claimed. The Dublin Brigade carried out 107 attacks on the city in May and 93 in July. The guerrilla warfare caused more than 1,000 casualties to the British army, which dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the British army.

By August, the Irish government had reached an agreement with the military leader, Eammon, and the Irish government gave the army full support, and recognized the validity of the agreement reached between Eammon and the Chinese Empire.

In this way, Ireland was united from the government, parliament to the military, united in the fight against Britain and in the search for the truth of Ireland. The Republicans and the Labour Party concentrated all their forces and fought together, which greatly strengthened Ireland.

Michael? Collins believed that if the war went on longer, it would bring down the British economy and force Britain to truce the war, because Ireland was dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, unlike the British who were mainly industrial, and were barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes.

Therefore, he devised a plan to "lead the war to Britain", sending assassination and sabotage squads into the British Isles, attacking and destroying British civilian facilities and important economic targets and public figures. Economic targets such as the bombing of the docks in Liverpool and the loss of 19 warehouses by the British army were all weapons and supplies rushed to the island of Ireland to support the British army.

In the face of the war in Ireland, the British authorities had learned from the spies within the Irish Army that the Chinese Empire had provided Emmen with a batch of weapons and equipment, and knew that the Chinese Empire was the backer of the Irish Army. However, Britain knew that the Chinese Empire was secretly playing tricks, but there was no evidence to accuse the Chinese Empire. Moreover, it was unwise to directly tear the skin of the Chinese Empire, so the British authorities pretended not to know, but only tightly sealed off the island of Ireland to prevent the Chinese Empire from transporting weapons and equipment and supplies into Ireland.

But this did not stop the Irish army, because they had received enough weapons and supplies, but the main force of the British army was in India and South Africa, and the limited strength of the Irish army was not enough to defeat the Irish army, especially the Irish army's guerrilla tactics, which made the British army exhausted.

The British government tried to resolve the conflict by establishing two autonomous parliaments in the north and south of Ireland, but the Irish parliament ignored them, believing that the Republic of Ireland already existed, but the Unionists in the north-east accepted the British proposal and prepared to establish their own government.

The region was dominated by Protestants and Unionists, so the pattern of warfare was very different from that of the rest of the country. In the south and west, the conflict was between the army and the British, but in the north-east, especially in Belfast, it often turned into a cycle of sectarian violence between mostly nationalist Catholics and almost exclusively Unionist Protestants.

The non-cooperation of Northern Ireland. The Irish government was divided into two factions, the North and the South. Soon, the Southern Irish Army launched a war against the Northern Irish Army under the slogan of purging the Protestants. Ireland is not yet. The Civil War broke out first and became a bloody war between Catholics and Protestants.

On August 17, British Colonel Gerald? Smith was assassinated at the Country Club in Cork City. Smith hails from Bainbridge, in the northern county of Down, and his death leads to revenge against Catholics in Bainbridge and Dromour. 21st. The Loyalists marched to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and forced 7,000 Catholics and left-wing Protestants to stop working. Sectarian riots broke out in Belfast and Delhi. As a result, 140 people died, and a large number of Catholics and Protestants were left homeless.

Just when the British were rejoicing at the division of Northern and Southern Ireland, the Chinese Empire put forward a proposal for a union at the Congress of Nations. At first not many countries were in favor. Because the union needs to be maintained by funding. And none of the countries want to pay for the union.

Originally, the Chinese Empire wanted to pay for its own money to form a union, but only the Chinese Emperor was not enough, and the name was not justified, and it was necessary to draw other countries in. As a result, the Chinese Empire held separate closed-door meetings with other countries, especially the news that the Chinese Empire was going to carry out armed intervention in South Africa. After promising that the interests of all countries in South Africa would be equalized, the other powers except Britain agreed to support the proposal for the establishment of a union of the Chinese Empire.

Of course. The Chinese Empire did not mention South Africa to the British for the sake of the distribution of South Africa's interests. The Chinese Empire lobbied Britain and said that the coalition would help Britain control the situation in Ireland and prevent Ireland from seceding from Britain. Britain believed this and voted in favor of the General Assembly, and the coalition was proclaimed.

According to the proposal of the Chinese Empire, the alliance was to be distributed among the various member states according to military and national financial strength, and the Chinese Empire undoubtedly had the largest share. Among the 50,000 joint peacekeeping troops, the Chinese Emperor accounted for 20,000, followed by the German army with 7,000 troops, the French army with 7,000 troops, the Italian army with 4,000 troops, the British army with 1,000 troops, the Spanish army with 1,000 troops, the Dutch army with 400 troops, the Swedish army with 400 troops, the Argentine army with 400 troops, the Chilean army with 400 troops, the Brazilian army with 400 troops, the Turkish army with 400 troops, and the Portuguese army, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary and other countries also sent soldiers ranging from 50 to several hundred to join. In addition, Korea, Western Japan, Siam, Ryukyu, Mexico, Papua, Lanfang, Singapore, the Philippines, Cuba, Persia, Ash, Afghanistan, Kuwait and other member states of the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere also participated, accounting for about 5,000 people, in fact, the Chinese Empire directly controlled the union reached 25,000 people. Although the United States is also a member of the League of Nations, the United States has been subjected to military sanctions by the Chinese Empire, and the US Self-Defense Forces are not armies and have no right to join the alliance.

Since the Chinese Empire gave the League of Nations the largest number of dues and the largest number of troops, the joint commander-in-chief was the Lieutenant General Cai Yi of the Imperial Chinese Army, and the five chiefs of staff were sent by the five permanent members of the Council to serve as a major general of the navy, land and air force, and the Chinese Empire sent Rear Admiral Lin Shuang to serve as the commander.

As for the joint equipment rationing, it is completely in accordance with the establishment and weaponry of the navy, land and air forces of the Chinese Empire, which is also the unanimous demand of all countries, because they want to know the military combat capability and tactical thinking of the Chinese Empire, and how advanced the equipment of the Chinese Emperor is. Of course, more importantly, all countries wanted to learn new tactics and command from the Chinese Empire through alliances.

The fifty thousand combined was divided into an armored division, a mechanized infantry division and a marine brigade, as well as an air wing, a naval cruiser.

Since the weapons and equipment used jointly are all the active equipment of the Chinese Empire, the mysterious M16 tank, W16 wheeled infantry tank, Z16 anti-tank tank, Thunderbolt fighter, etc., which are regarded as the most mysterious and powerful weapons and equipment by the Western world, have all been unveiled, which immediately shocked and envied the European and American military. However, there are also a lot of equipment The Chinese Empire refused to give joint equipment, on the grounds that the previous equipment was enough to maintain world peace, so it wanted more powerful equipment such as the Hellfire fighter to continue to be kept secret, which made the European and American militaries unable to see each other, and their hearts were anxious.

After the establishment of the joint alliance, a six-month run-in training was conducted in the Nanjing Military Region of the Chinese Empire, and officers and men from more than 40 countries around the world uniformly used Chinese for communication, so the officers and men selected by various countries to join the joint were basically either people who had studied in the Chinese Empire or knew Chinese, so that the original plan to teach everyone Chinese in three months was canceled, and the entire run-in training was completed in only three months.

During these three months, the United mainly adapted to the training methods of the Chinese Imperial Team and the use of Chinese Imperial equipment. In particular, in addition to understanding the Chinese instructions on the operating instruments, foreign military personnel must also receive special training in the Chinese style in the use and piloting of armored three-sword and Thunderbolt fighters.

The special training of the Chinese Emperor was to train all foreign officers and soldiers like dead dogs, so that they would be obedient and accept the leadership of the Chinese Empire, and any officer or soldier who did not obey the orders of the commander of the Chinese Empire would be kicked back to their original country. The ultimate goal of the Chinese Empire was to train all foreign armies to be absolutely obedient to the orders of the Combined Command, and to break down the boundaries and barriers between countries.

After three months of devil training, Cai Ye completely controlled this unit.

As a result, the Chinese Empire then raised concerns about the civil war in the Union of South Africa at the Congress of the League of Nations, and demanded joint intervention in the South African civil war to prevent the suffering of South Africa and save the South African people.