July 28.
Excert on the conventional the threatened outbreak of fighting between Hunan and Hupeh is perplexing enough to most onlookers. The map, however, and a few facts familiar to everybody will make of it a simpler affair than many of the involved quarrels which keep China distracted. Hunan is surrounded Tuchun Wang Chan-yuan,° that chieftain's position ig not a happy one.'' Furthermore, there might be born of all this turmoil an alliance extending from Canton right up through central China to Honan, into the orbit of which Kiangsi, Fukien and: Chekiang might easily be drawn. But negotiations are said to have begun near Yochow and there is thus a possibility of money, so often, deciding the issue. It is to be noticed that the piece goods auctions yesterday, that excellent political barometer, were quiet but not alarmist.
Turning to other features of the Yangtze situation, the outstanding event of importance is the resolution passed by the residents of Ichang calling upon the Diplomatic Body to obtaimr
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