The anxiety of the Government at Nanking over the threat of a revival of the fighting in Szechuen will be readily understood. The capture of Chenktu, after three, force battles, by General Liu Hsiang and his associate.commander has not, apdimmed the optimism of ral Liu Wen-hui who is credited a desire to. move some 60,000 treens, to the recapture the unfortunate Chang Chun, who is well-known in Shang-hal aa the former, Major of Greater Shanghai, is. rapidly becoming the handy man of the Government in such to be hoped that his persuasion wi be of service. Yet it is to be feared that events in Manchuria and even round the Great Wall leave Szechuen cold. In Canton there is much evidence of protest against -the movements of the Japanese in the North put' there is not so much evidence of readiness to give the Government the most practical form of support which it can desire at this junéture—namely' the development of close liaison and abandonment of gestures of dissension. By its policy of tolerance the Government has given proof of a willing hess to allow. provincial self-expression to find itself. The alternative to that policy is not even. acy adamically discussed. Tt seems therefore that if Canton is seriously upset by the latest mews from the North it has one very good way of showing opposition to Japanese plans—by working for the consolid tion of Chinese polity in clear disproof of the argument that disunity in China is not submitting to trea ment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.