Can northern troops do one iota better im such roads and passes as separate the southern border cities of nan from the northern border cities of Canton—aye, and those border eitieg from other cities north jand south, in 1926 than in 1918? Those of tis who have seen the way which the clumsily booted soldiers of the north hobble back from a 20-mile or so expedition amongst the passes and poor roads of Hunan's innumerable patches of hilly ground, and compared them with the springing step of the straw-sandalled soldiers of the south after marching twice that distance between dawn and dusk, have our doubts. But "wait and see" is the only possible answer in [China to forecast of the future.
Good Chinese friends, who were in Jemployment.on Wu's Hankow in Febr when I returned from furlough, that Wa had no chance of success in his plans on the north! Th gift of foretelling isnot merely the foreigner in China Tang has left with the regrets lof the great majority of people in this city who hate fighting and want to se a strong man in Yower Wa Pei-fu could have waited, the inevitableness of the situation would have compelled Tang. Sheng-to throw in his lot with Wa. haste has equally compelled now to throw in hig lot with Cai ton, and the difference "in there Canton border passes will) necessarily be very great
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