Our Haichow correspondent's Ietter to-day is interesting in many ways though so long delayed in the post. The bloodlessness of General Bei Bao-san's loss of Haichow, for instance; which, there -is little doubt, was afterwards regained with equal Tack of bloodshed, These ai mysteries of Tuchun warfare the outsider cannot fathom. But they do suggest, what is the really important point, that there has been no such loss of life or face ax yet as should make it impracticable ffr the leaders of China to put their own disputes on one side and stand together against the Bolshevist. Still more interesting is our Jcorrespondent's account of versation with General Shing lien some days after the report of his suicide had been published with every wealth of gruesome detail. Yes, we acknowledge frankly that jwe published it. ur excuse must} jhe that the Chekiang Military Head-sarters in Skanghaiy twice seen] and clovely interrogated on the subject, were absolutely certain that} General Shing had committed suicide after killing-his wives and children, and they gave a deseripto'our reporter (who knows General Shing well) of the man they had found dead, which seemed to leave no doubt of the story's Well, another case of Mark Twain's aphorism.
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