To-day's news of the ending of the strike at Canton might be more detailed, but appears satisfactory so far as it goes. The main point that the police must not be reinstated and that point the foreiga authorities of Shameen have successfully upheld. They have won and the whole community of Shameen are most heartily to be congratulated on their stubborn and successful stand against the Communist agitators' attempt intimidate them. The importance of the conflict cannot be overrated both from the viewpoint of the foreigner and of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In their struggle with the latter, the Communists clearly had the weight of public opinion against them, the losses to Chinese trade resuiting from the strike being enormous But the situation in Canton is d2- cidedly interesting. There is the Constitutional Government of Dr.
Sun and his friends; there are Communists who, for two or three thought themselves strong enough to defy Dr. Sun; and there the Merchants Volunteers, who elude, according to a letter on the page, not only the patent Canton, but branches in 120 villages and towns of the province and who feel themselves. strong enough to threaten a general strike if their arms and ammunition are not handed over to them. These movements are of the deepest inter~ fest. The Tuchuns began by defying Peking, the bureaucracy defy the goi Tuchuns and now the people begi to defy both. In the break-up of all ordered government what complaint have the ruling classes against the populace? It is they who taught it the way of anarchy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.