We sincerely hope that the Chin-authorities of Nanking and izyin will not continue to be deaf to the appeal of the Russian community of Shanghai in respect fof. the ten Russians who, vanished from Kiangyin on January 21. Full Metails of the case will found on page 389 of thi The Fighting in Honan The present fighting in Honan can only be considered ax aside political The principal figures in it are General Hu Chung-yi, Tupan of the province, and General Kan Vu-kun, a claimant to the post. General Kan's claims are based on the was lying time came to drive Loyang, and, taking advantage of the situation, he did so. Apart from that. on Jachievement his career hax not been a conspicuously outstanding tone, and he has displayed more temerity than judgment in opposing himself to Ha Chung-si, Reports from the province state that wi the past few weeks the latter has garrisoned practically every. hsien in the district near Kaifeng with his soldiery, and so. when the trouble started some days ago he was' uble to. make a rapid. cone Promise General Kan's position; The latter is said to have fled, and Jas his soldiers are in retreat. there every reason to hope for a very fovief campaign, for nobody likely to intervene on Kan's side. concentration of troops going: on one or two other important facts have been noted. ig, whose protege Hu has been recruiting the province, and these new levies are being carried north by for there is no shortage of id taken that Feng is making his ions for a struggle in_ the ext few months with Chang Tso-lin, At the same time it is men. ioned that in the districts. wher Hu Chung-yi has strength banditry unhappily this does not mean that the bandits have been suppressed, 'They are supposed merely' to. hav. zone to Anhui, where recently it cent a wealthy merchant a million dollars to regain his freedom. Apparently now these miscreants and their kind will receive a reinforce ment from the defeated troops of General Kan,
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