Attention is directed to the review of "World Wide Soviet Plots" appearing the Book Page of this week's issue, the work in question dealing with the revelations qf documents seized at the time of the raid on the U.SS.R. Embassy at Peking. representative of the "left wing" faction now in control of Canton.
The actual procedure was the overthrow of General Huang Shao-hsiung, General Li's subordinate who recently arrived in Canton from by a General Huarg Chang Fa-the—Whampoa Military' Academy, recently in the hands of she Kuangsi men and much "whiter" that Borodin ever intended it should be, was besieged, stormed and taken after a severe fight. The ease with which the coup was executed was due to the defection of General Li (Li Fuk-lum), the of Bosam, who was persuaded 6 swing over from the right to the loft wing under the plea of ridden Kuangtung of the Kuangsi militarists. The feud which has [culminated in this disconcerting] tam over is in part a war betweca When it is remembered that the itary por mest entirely n the hands of Li Tsung-jen an?
ug-hai, it will be understood how disconcerting these dev ments in Canton are to the Nanking regime. Among the many rumours \joying, wide circulation in Chinese ecreles Lo-day was one to the effect that, under pressure from tle Kucngsi men, a mandate would be saved outlawing Chang Fa-kuei the whole Cantonese group and cutting them off from the! Kuomintang dispensation. It was only a few days ago, while Wang Ching-wei and General Li were on their way north that the Nanking. folk here were congratulating them= selves upon the docility of the Cantonese group and predicting, perfect. Kuomintang solidarity the prospective 4th Plenary Conference. Now it is by no "means! certain that there will be any such) conference, Canton is seemingly Jost, General Li is virtually an exile from Kuangtung and Mr. Wang Ching-wei, instead of being a meek, suppliant with favours to ask of the Conference, is the master of the! Kuangtung situation and is in a position to dictate his terms threaten the independence of his native province.
Equally disconcerting is the alliance reached between Mr. Wang] and General Chiang Kai-shek. The rumour about town to-day was that, spite of this alliance, General Chiang had accepted an' appointment to the executive and military' advisory committees of the Nanking' administration. This is thought not only premature but unlikely to happen. General Chiang and Mr. Wang. Chi have undoubtedly, been drawn to one another by their Joint opposition to the Kuangsi gen. erals who recently pitched General Chiang out of the supreme command at Nanking and whose ally, General Li, Mr. Wang's cohorts have just dethroned in Canton. "Their joint slogan is of course "Down with Kuangsi Militarism." They clamour for civil Government and do not suggest that "left wing" Cantonese militarism is to come up as Kuangsi suilitarism goes down. It is inter-
Wang Ching-wei, he expresses satis. faction, sayin" that such under~ standings are desirable, but that ho regards it ay a personal settlement of differences between two energetic and valuable party leaders and refuses to read great political significance into it, Further than this hho had no opinion to offer om this subject. He thought the question of the 4th Plenary Conference ought to be settled by the will of the majority. If the majority wanted it, he was for it, Ifa minority only. wanted it, it would not take place. The Special Central Commission was the organ of three groups and could not be abolished before the Conference to please one or two men. If, at the Conference, when ever it was held, sentiment seemed to be generally in favour of its abolition, then it could be abolished at the close of the Conference.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.