Despite the charge that has been brought against it, that it is dominated by politicians who have not reformed, but are as anxious today as they were said to be in the past to turn China into a vast communistic state, better order on the whole hax been maintained by the incumbent government than was maintained by its. predecessor Crime by no means has been com pletely stamped out, but it is being punished in a ruthless manner. That the criminals might know what to expect, some days ago an example was made of four young. men, three of whom had been convietéd of crimes.amounting only to.misdemeanours, and they were shot after being paraded through the streets.
If the rulers of Canton still are of a mind to make south China a Paradise for the working-men and hell on earth for the bourgeois, they at Toast have not done much to increase the material welfare of the dfongkong-Canton strikers. Promises repeatedly had been made by the former government -that it would got rid of the idle workmen, but this radical government took ro time at all to get beyond the talking stage. It has settled with the strikers, kicked them out of the private property which they were holding and using as their own, and has turned this property back. to the real owners. Circulars produced lately by the "Reds" have! attacked Wong Kel-cheung language equally as bitter as that which they used in speaking of General Li Chi-sen. To show the hatred of the powers that will be recalled that fires were! started in various quarters of Can. ton and five men found guilty of! arson promptly were put to death.
The Debit Side All the above is written on the credit side of Wong Kei-cheung's ledger. Yet, notwithstanding the! fact that the column added up exhibits a splendid total, the -mer-_ chants appear to be entirely dissatisfied with the results. To their mind, there is one thing written on the other side of the page that, if given its proper value, is likely to
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