Negotiations are going on in every possible direction. Each factional Header has delegates in the camps} cof all the others and, whatever anyone of them says about a capital dete: jon of each is to get to} here or a capital there, the secret!
Peking eventually. There are going, ty be strange alliances and startling Yetrayals. In a general way, however, it looks as though Chiang Kai shek feels the weakness of hi position a8 a crusader, since som of the most influential Kuor vaints are still in Hankow, knows the weakness: of his position since the Kuangsi and Chekiang men feel that they have gone far enough from home and want to make sure of what they' have instead of venturing into the iceless north, He would—therefore like to save his face and get a temporary rest by coming to terms with Fengtien and Son Chuan-fang, Jeaving them alone in the north if they will subscribe to the Three Principles, while using Feng Yu-Lsiang to help him to wipe out the Hankow regime, in return for which Feng would get Hankow. Feng Vu-hsiang was, of course bound for 'Peking and has undoubtedly been offered Peking by Borodin's tools in Chengchow, but prefers now to wait developments, Hf Sun Chuan-fang succeeds Chang Chung-chang a8 Governor of in tong he will please the Feng-Bealtee Ly siieg' Chen of cate Chung-chung and putting a more welcome force between then, and Chiang Kai-shek, while he will'give the latter an excuse for stopping his. advance and entering into an amicable agreement, by hanging out. the Kuomintang flag, as Yen than has done, and declaring himvelt a Sun Yat-sen worshipper and 4 supporter of the Three Princip! This, it is well known, he is read; to do, Also Chiang Kai-shek de-claves himself ready enough to enter upon the same relations, on the same terms, with Yang Vu.
ang Hsueh-liang and other young-Fengtien leaders who show nationalist" tendencies, but, to case his political adherents' in. Nanking, he has to insist upon the withdrawal and retirement of Chang. Teo-lin, Such an agreement, thinks Chiang Kai-shek, would enable him to devote his attention to making himself supreme dictator over all the provinces held by various factions of the Kuomintang, after he could again turn his atten. tion to the north; while the North-ex ners, one and all, have no thought a permanent alliance with the south or a lasting adherence to Southern doctrine, bat hone to gain time, by declaring' themselves good "Nationalists" and buying tempora ary immunity from Southern tation, to. form an invul Jeague—Chang Chung-chang being cut of the picture—against the Southern upstarts, The "Nationalist" Ideal It must, not be forgotten either that the "Nationalist" ideal has made a strong appeal everywhere and takes the fancy of all Chinese. The Three Principles for the People they regard as harmless eyewash; Sun Yat-sen, they will all confess, was a patriot and now that hho is dead there is no harm in saying so. The eripture, the bai ""Nationalism", is rabid anti-foreignism and that is latent i Some temporary adjustment is. therefore possible after a reshuffling of the cards that will eliminate the Han-
Kow clique, but it) will probably last just enough to have "anti-for-ignism" preached from one end of China to the other and thoroughly implanted in the minds of a few core million more of the illiterate masses, when the unstable that may be made through and compromise, will break down again and the eternal sud will be renewed with fresh Vigour, Another' possibility, which whispered about, is that Chiang Ki K's ambitions for_w dictatorship the. south. may be thwarted by Conspiracy within his following, in which event Feng Vu-hsiang and army others would presumably turp
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