Why should the additions be une sential? During these six months. there were many changes and they: were very important changes, in all relations, which the imperialists. could not possibly have foreseen, The Kuomintang not only broke their affiliation with the Communists but as counter revolutionaries surpassed in zeal all the counter-revolutionary parties of Europe, After the adjustment of the workers' movement and the peasant organizations there was no remaining reason for trouble between Nanking and 'Wu-Han, und the right wing of the 'Kuomintang is really on the way to a restoration of unity. A correspondent of the London "Times, Riley, who disappeared mysteriously from' Chengchow leaving no. trace, Jassured me earnestly that the British Government withheld recognition [from the Nationalist authorities, simply because of the dispute between Nanking and Wu-Har and that if they made peace they would get sympathetic support immediate. ly. Now the Right Kuomintang has Jearried out instructions and has reason to expect a favourable change in British policy. The portion of this introductory article which deals with the Bolshevist part in the Chi Inese revolution has been revised somewhat in the new edition, but factually the whole of it should be retracted. This article embodies a social philosophy of modern Chinese history having always to do with [the Bolsheviks and Moscow's gold. This theory is in one sense very materialistic, but if there were no Bolsheviks the "die-hard" mind would entertain the same concep tions, for spiritual conception of Red influence would take the place lof materialistic conception.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.