throw forces from the eastern to the western fronts and rice verzay as the situation required. Th parallel is not very good, because Nanking's communications many then had, and, in order to meet the Communist menace, General Chiang Kai-shek will first have to dispose of his Northern enemies, And not only dispose of them, but do it so quickly as to be able to transfer sufficient troops south of the Yangtze to deal with a situation which is rapidly becoming serious, The capture of Chengchow would undoubtedly tend to accelerate matters favour of Nanking, but it is doubtful. if that can be done without very serious and prolonged fighting and the further operation of the time factor against the Government. It is all very well to be wise after the event, but at this juncture it seems as if Nanking would have been better advised to have cleaned. up the bad state of affairs in the south, before embarking on the adventure in the north, which, after all, was very much' of its own choosing, A Ronco message from Tokyo states that, in necordance with the provisional' commercial and amity agreement signed recently by Japan and Egypt, the Japanese Government has decided to open a Legation at Cairo and the appropriations in connection with the opening of the Legation have been put in the next year's budget of thd Foreign Office. The Foreign OMice is also contemplating—the opening of a Consulate in Mom-bassa, in Kenya, Piracy in the Harbour that what is essentially a business question should have become a party issue, or the Government's obstinacy
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