and the Capital: "Daily Telegraph" on Nationalists London, June 19.
The "Times," in the course of an editorial article, expresses the opinion that there are strong economic and sentimental reasons for the transference of the Chines capital to Nanking, which is also less exposed to foreign attack than, Peking, but considers that the situation in Manchuria and Mongolia militates against a change, South. Manchuria being the object of official Japanese interest while Outer-Mongolia has become to all intents and purposes a Soviet tectorate and one of the channel of Communist penetration, paper wonders whether a transfer of the capital may not lead to a dangerous loss of central control over the vulnerable marches of North China.
The "Daily Telegraph" editorial article on the Chine Nationalist Government's declars tion to the Powers states that it illustrates the inveterate inability of the Chinese Nationalists to see themselves as athars them and their invincible belief that. the Powers can be hoodwinked bluffed into accepting the Kuomi tang's estimate of themselves their achievements.
How, asks the paper, can the Nanking Government expect the Powers to accept their assurances that they will faithfully observe any new obligations into which they enter in view of their cynical interference with the working of the Salt Babelle? There is not sort of confidence that the Nationalist Government will not similarly into fore with the Maritime Custonrs the opportunity arises.
The phrasing of their declaration, the journal asserts, obviously leaves the Nanking Government a loophole to repudiate any and every obligation entered into by previous Governments of China on the ground that they were not conclud-the Bolshevik pretext for a basis of equality. 7
tion, and it is easy to see where the doctrine has een borrowed.—Reuter. 1
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