The report from Hankow published yesterday that Kuangsi troops: advancing through Hunan had arrived on the outskirts of Changsha. by last Friday morning; that General Ho Chien, Governor of Hunan, had withdrawn with his troops from the provincial capital; and that the' Ironsides under General Chang Fa-kuei had captured Hengchowfu, about 100 miles south of Changsha the Siang river, "several days ago" should be taken with great reserve. Even with the river to help them, the necessary movement seems incredibly quick. The battle of Kuei-hsien, which for reasons not yet clear ended the fighting between the Kuangs! troops and Canton, took place about May 14 or 15, Kueihsien is right in the south of Kuangsi so that the latter forces and the Tronsides in marching north would have the whole width of the pro-'On May 27 Canton-spotted the Iror yang in southern Hunan. The Cantonese aeroplanes are very good and there seems no reason to doubt their report, except that the Ironsides had certainly made wonderful time in getting so far in only 11 or 12 days. At Kiyang they were still 50 miles as the crow flies from Hengchow. They may have got to the Intter town by now, but it hardly seems possible to say that they ca tured it "several days ago." Of the Kuangsi forces there has been no mention since the battle of Kuei-hsien, though there was a rumour that 'a part of them were turning ff into Kiangsi, But it hardly seems likely that they would have moved so much faster than the Ironsides as to bring them to Changsha by last Friday. A Kuo Min message from Hankow says that two gunboats have been Kent to Changsha to reinforce General Ho Chien against the Ironsides' invasion. The intter is undoubtedly a serious but we doubt its being so very fous yet as the message from Hankow would indicat rulers to drop quarrels, and give:
sly to the work of restoring country, the fallen in vain, The Nottingham By-election The significance of can be overrated, but we do not maxim applies to the case] of Nottingham especially coming 30 soon after the Battersea by-election. In the latter ease the Liberal vote was divided, part being given to the Labour candidate and part to the Conservative; and the latter got the constituency thus tetuming to its old allegiance. At Nottingham. in the general election, the Liberal and Labour candidates together polled J9311 votes, or nearly 5,000 more than the winning Conservative. But on Tuesday the Conservative vote increased by a few hundreds while the combined Liberal and Labour votes fell away to 12,571 This is the direct result of the Government's determination extinguish safeguarding. During the canvassing for the general election, where a woman testified that her husband, a lace-maker, had not worked a full week for many years before safeguarding was introduced, but that, since it began, he had never lost' an hour. the Labour candidate was obliged to declare himself in favour of fe guarding.. To-day we publish a poignant description of a demonstration by the Nottingham workers against the Government's decision, and a report of a further: debate in the House of Commons on the general question of safeguarding. Considering the uniform results shown by safeguarded industries of more employment, increased exports. and reduced prices to. consumers, with corresponding disadvantage to be found in any direction, one hardly knows whether the more to regret'
Course, involved by slow without blowing the horn is not more than a few seconds at most, ple reason that, however one may make, the traffic cans get out of. the way. and the controls the street crossings are worke regard The plain fact is that streets are a mably and quite ly noisy, and we con-the police on their campaign and wish them! suees in it.
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