Peking, Mar, 22.
There is much anxious comment among diplomatic circles upon the ind consular reports which that Chiang Kai-shek is accepting and preparing to use against the North the remnants of the Red-Pink forces of Gen. Chang Fakuel and the communists recently defeated in Northern Kuangtung, by the Kuangsi armies.
'According to unconfirmed reports these desperadoes were advancing' northwards in two calamus through Fukien and Kiangsi living on the country as they go and converging on Hangchow where they will be taken over by the Nationalists for: incorporation' in the expedition against the North.
"if confirmed, these reports which inspire the most serious doubts with regard to Nanking's bona fides and will force the Powers to regard the expedition as a fresh menace of new outrages wherever they may. be successful.
Diplomatic inquiries fo substantiate or disprove the fo ports are likely to be made in the near future,
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