For three weeks now the Concession has been Chinese and nothing has been done. No attempt fof any sort has been made by the Chinese to build up an organiza tion to entry on essential services, The late Municipal Police, slothed regs, (nest of their ' clothing Jouted by the gentlemen of tke 6th Army on January wander about the strecte discer lately, hands in pockets, chatting idly with passing coolies and wondering where their next_month's pay is to come from. Daily we have the spectacle of Chinese cool ies, to be counted by tens and twenties, urinating on our Bund a spectacle which it is not particularly. Cdifying to those accustomed to th: amenities of occidental civilization The Concession footpaths, being the only nicely paved bits of China within a hundred miles, form an ex: cellent course, on which the esse doree" may acquire the art of bicycling. Our roadways, not Fmooth, provide a geod track up and down which would-be Nationalist ficers may gallop. Our foreshore is a perfectly delightful spot {or beggar encampments, Kiukiang: Concession, which was sweet and. clean und fragrant, will soon revert te the mucky state which is the: rest of China, Such are the fruits: of the modern Nationalist Govern ment of which Mr. Eugene Chen is so proud. Citizens of Shanghai be warned in time, In Nanchang the extremists have succeeded in wrecking the headquarters of the moderate organization, the Hsien Tang Pu, to which the Farmers are affiliated and four of the moderate leaders have been killed in the rioting. The Commissioner of Education was dragged through the streets. The Commissioner of Justice escaped in time but his wife is believed to have deen among some of the women dragged through the streets, How, do Education and Justice flourish in Kiangsit The sudden attack Jon the Provisional Cantonese notes has added to the already numa fous difficulties of the Chinese merchants and many of the shops have again closed their doors In Kiukiaag the situation is very, similar, Although martial law la still in force officially, members of Jthe labour unions are allowed to carry knives. Often these knives fare lashed to the ends of long poles and are reminiscent of the pictures we used to see in the foreign papers at the time of the Boxer troubles of Chinese crowds parading these long poles adorned with human heads, The Kiukiang "Hsien Tang Pu" has been wrecked and numbers of the moderates, men and women, have been seized, bound with ropes and dragged through the streets, Many, of these unfortunate victims are held prisoner, The attitude of the soldiers is doubtful and it is thought that Chu Pei-teh and his whole 3rd Army will support the Communists, Cha Pel-tch is no more a Communist than is Tang Sengcir, but as the Intter wants Hunan for himself se Chu Pei-teh wants Kiangsi for himself, and presumably they think they have a Detter chance of getting what they, want by supporting the Hankow clique,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.