In view of the present militarized state of China; one has to view all developments that spring from the military mind from the strategic point of view, The same of checks balances lias Yuan. Shih-kai present military machi has never been played so delicately as to-day. In several game are in preyeres, with the various moves in some cise' entirely beyond the control of the principal players. Hf the situation In Honan does not clear up very quickly, it, may well involve other chan' the actual participants. The Fengtienites want neither Hu Ching-yi nor Sun Yueh control of either the Lung-or the Pekivz-Hlankow line, They look like succeeding in dri well ge at Pavtingfu between Yuchsiang and his lieutenants of the Kuominchun. Li Chi been recruiting soldi fortnight to occupy Paotingfu and jen game. Even without them, of course, Feng would have a tremendous influence, in and near Peking and in China's northwest.
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