The same paper goes no to say that Little Hsu (Hsu Shu-cheng) and Tseng Vu-chun have been very active in their preparations for a Chekiang descent upon Nanking but that Tuan Chi-jui does not approve of these endeavour either. He says that unless they are fully rebared they will_find such an -important post as Nanking, historically a kind of centrifugal hub in Chinese politics, a. hard place to take and a harder place to hold.
To-day's "Far Eastern Times," edited under the direction of Mr. Lenox Simpson, prints a letter from an unidentified correspondent saying that Chi Hsieh-yuan is now virtually a prisoner in Nanking and predicting a Che kiang naval assault upon the Kiangsu capital.
Throughout all this maze of information and possible misinformation upon affairs along the coast between the Yangtze and the Kuangtung frontier, there run several strands of truth.
known that as early as last Mare In the first place it is Gefinitely the Governor of Kiangsu, Chi Hsieh-yuan, was" ready to cooperate with Sun Ch'uan-fang, then in Fukien, in a descent upon Chekiang as soon as Sun had set-tied himself in Fukien and had so ordered his affairs that he could leave Wang Yung-chuan in charge. This scheme fell through because Sun never did arrive at a clear understanding with his associates in Fukien and because he found himself so painfully short of funds that he had to come north and beg for help in Paoting and Loyang. The lack of finan-
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