The Canton war communiques need watching warily. On August 10 newspaper agency" message from Canton quoted an anti-Red report that the Cafitonese troops had had fo evacuate Changsha, capital of Hunan: the me headquarters in that their situation in that province was not so favourable as' it, had een. On August. 27 all doubt to the capture by the Allied forces Ju north China of the Nankow Pass was dispelled by Reuter's message Diat foreign military experts from Peking had examined the Kuominchun defences in the Pass and were prised at their strength and at their having been captured. Yet on August 18 Canton fesses a comuigtigué announcing "the decisive defeat" of the Allies by the Kuo-Than forces in this very district in which every telegram went to show that the very reverse had hnnppened. 'Then comes" the nouncement of the Cantonese forces attacking the Northern position in Hunan at Milo. So far us we can} ascertain, this is a little south of Yochow, the Yangtze gateway into Honan.' In view of the prevailing, floods in this area, which on account the proximity' of the Tungting Lake are always slow to subside, we doubt if any serious military operations can take place. Tt would seem, either that Canton is anxious to get In a blow before Wa Pef-fu can come down from the north; that in view of the Kuominchan defeat at Nankow, itis. "killing Kruger with its mouth" in order to hearten up its followers,
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