It is said that the foreigner will) loss face at having allowed theta-selves to be chased out of ten houses by a Chinese military rabble. That may be true in But in) the West the loss of face will be the nation which allowed ite soldiers to loot the homes of peaceful foreigners for a. whole) week and then to. go away unpunished, as the soldiers of the 6th jand 7th National Armies have gone anpaniahed to this day.
Kiukiang foreigners are now face) with the question of returnfhg to the store, There is no anxiety on their pert to do. so as, they. know they are threatened with a. general strike, followed possibly by rioting. Jas soon as they leave their Floating, Concession. So it Is expected that Hor thie next few days the situation [will be carefully examined and no} ash-move will be made. With the examples of Chungking, Tchang and Changsha before us we are under no illusions as to what to expect, be ever so many agreements signed.
Li Lich-chun, who was Governor of Kiangsi in' the first years of the Reptile, has mow returned Nanchang as First Deputy of. the Provincial Committee (a post which leorresponds to Governor): He isa member of the Tight wing of the Kuomintang and he has succeeded in driving all the members of the left wing out of Nanchang. 'They have come to Kiukiang. It is said that there is no. more "Bolshie" place in China now than Kivkiang 'Phot is another reason why the' foreigners are not anxious to return to the shore.
Daring the lesions and. demonstrations February 28, it was found that many posters were put up denouncing the right wing of the Kuomintang as were anti-British posters, Impressions of a Visit to Since the Chen-O'Malley Agree ment was signed and the Provision-a Council set up under the Director ship of Mr. H. 0. Tong, there has} be: n a quiet period, where hostility to foreigners has died down and one Jean move about again freely. i Posters are appearing, however, daily on all walls of the ex-British) Concession and the Native Cit leaflets are distributed; processions} wander along the Bund at all hours, and ricshas and motor-traffic are) held up for tribute.
The Bund and wharves are crowd-)
with loafers now ard knots of imiers gather there to listen to the of the propagandists.
see already a marked de-nin the condition of the Concessions, coolies observing no rales: will proval During a three days' stay only fair to say that we met with incivility of any kind in the streets, beyond extortion from riesha cookies.—British residents seldom take ofe.for this reason.
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