One of the chief subjects of the conference has been the settlement of this area of Kuangtung in such a way as to permit of the advance against the North. General Ho, who succeeded General Chi Kai-shek in command of the First Army, has been publishing an_account of military affairs throughout China. After showing that in all China the only allies of the Revolutionary Army are Feng Yuhhsiang's forces, who though not part of the Kuomintang Army are very near to it in sympathy, he points out that the advance northwards must be their aim, and that this cannot be delayed more than fow months. In that time the Enst River districts must be settled 40 that what is won be not overturned £0 soon as the army departs Two proposals are made to this end.
First the police are to be converted into a disciplined and armed kendurmeric, xo that local magistrates cin cope with robbery and brigandage, ard not require the services of the regular troops for minor affairs. Second, a people's army must be raised' for self-protection. This seems to be based on the system of the Territorials and to contemplate a force of some thousand men for each Asien, to receive regular training four} months a year, during which time only they would receive pay, while they could be called out in every emergency. Presumably the hope is that with' these trained forces in the rear of the Army there would be sufficient safeguard against unti-revolutionary risings, and adequate force to carry out with increasing thoroughness the communist and semi-communist measures desired, and the propaganda necessary to them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.