Conclusion of Traffic Conference Peking, Oct. 1./
The Trafic Conference ended today. "The reports of the sub-commmittces were accepted.
The Chairman made a closing speech in which he emphasized the stimulus which would be given to trade and industry by—railway development Reuters Pec Se Gen. Cheng Kai-shek, commander
augurated on October 3, as of the "Reds" in, Centon, was, in-mander-in-Chief of the Expedition. lary Forces for the subjugation of Gen. Chen Chiung-ming, the Gantonese leader and avowed enemy of the Beds. Mobilization has been ordered.
Just_when Honan has quietened down from the viewpoint of troop movements and military display the border, I hear an account of activities in that province which bode ill for peace in the immediate future. As T have already' pointed out, after painting Canton Red, the' Bolsheviks aimed at tra forming the pink of Kuomintang Honan into the same gory colour.
They are now laying on the brush. The various training camps fare visited from time to time by Russian officers, many of whom have recently been sent up from Canton, fand the whole military organization of the province is gradually coming under the influence of the Reds, Supplies.are being ordered in unusual quantities, and money aces to be the least trouble inclined' to opinion that a move toward Sha tung is being urged on the Honan Tupan by his Red advisers, and one informant goes so far as to forecast hostilities against. Chang—Chung-chang in the direction of Tsaochowfa within a week, It is known, of course, that Gen eral Chang has earned the dis plea sure of the Reds by his insistence on keeping his White Rusuian guards, and it should also be knowe now that the Bolsheviks are striving their hardest to foment trouble before the Tariff Conference has been given a chance to consolidate a new body of relations between the Powers and China, But whether the move will be made as quickly as my informants prophesy seems to be dependent on many circumstances, not the least of which is the flooded state of the country over which the Honan soldiers are anticipated to operate,
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