The fifth plenary session of the Kuomintang opens in Nanking to-morrow. Generals from north and south are to be there, representatives of all the leading provinces, great things are to be attempted and expectations are keen. It is indeed a great occasion, Never before since the Manchus fell has it been possible for all the people of China to stand together under one flag. 'I Manchuria is not represented, she is certainly not antagonistic, and, as we said recently, there is no section that does not subscribe in principle to the new ideas. Moreover it is the first occasion since the collapse of Fengtien that an opportunity is given for sober thinking collective lines. The past two months have been far from re-
"comfort in work' He is a happy man who likes his job. A great deal of nonsense is written, nowadays, about the miseries of the men who are compelled by hard luck to do monotonous and exhausting labour. We feel that every one of the inva: tors pitied the poor navvies and thought them little better than galley slaves; and we feel equal-assuring. Superficially, great talk of reform, grandiose promises, impossibly golden pro-Jects; beneath the surface, the old intrigue and scramble for office, intensified by the fresh opportunities which the capture of Peking presented. Now at. last there is a chance to take stock of the situation. Soldier and civilian, Ministers and com-
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