The other day our copy of the Kuch Min Kung Bao had a lange space blank, we assume that it was due to news which the political authorities in Chengtu expunged as not being to their liking. News from, Hobachang, Huangtuchang and Huakinitsi indicates that those markets have been looted by bri-gonds (red lanterns).
The military situation is most disheartening, and to a foreign onlooker it seems that the old game of jealous emulation is still going} on and the Central Government is really unable to cope with it.
A recent newspaper, report Director General Liu Hsiang's reply. to Administrator Tuan, states that the says when he received the Central Government's order to examine into the military situation due to the warring parties, he found that Yang Sen started the war. The lo around here do not love Yan but they all agree that he started the war because he had good evidence that the others had fixed 'a date for starting on him. The questions of the salt and the arsenal we are not qualified to discuss, but one cannot help asking why does not the Government put a strong man at the head, and expect the others to knuckle under. The common people are really quite in Gifferent as to whether it is Yang Sen or Liu Hsiang. The reason of course is obvious There is no one fient to enable him to hold the reins man apparently with prestige suftifall over the province even if he leonid get them.
Jossip persistently says that Chang Tso-lin and Feng Vu-hsiang are going to fight because of the former's desire fo set up the mon-
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