Nov. 24.
Tue clash between Hangchow and Nanking over the appointment of a successor to the assassinated General Hsu as chief of the Shanghai and Woosung Constabulary cannot but occasion grave concern. That it will come to an open breach and fighting, we do not believe. The pressure of public opinion in this district is so strong, as evidenced by the peace agreement concluded last August between Jiangsu and Chekiang, which was the direct outcome of the insistance of merchants and gentry of both provinces, that neither General Chi of Nanking nor General Lu of Chekiang would rashly. take so extreme a course. In justice to them also be it said, that neither man is of 'a nature to plunge his province into the horrors of civil war. Both General Chi and General Lu are humane men, with a well reputed sense of their responsibilities and they may be trusted not to cast away the good names they have amongst both Chinese and foreigners. But friction between men of—their standing in this important region must have many undesirable results.
The point at issue is all the more difficult to adjust because of its simplicity. When General Hsu died, General Ho Feng-ling, Military Governor of Sungkiang and Shanghai, promptly appointed General Lu Yung-chien, who had been the murdered man's chief of staff, to succeed him. General Ho, as everybody knows, is the lieutenant of General Lu at Hangchow, whom he had succeeded at Lunghua. By this means the Tuchun_of Chekiang regained his influence over the who! of the Shanghai district; Reproduced with permission!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.