Just why this very miserable showing was'necessary has not' yot been explained, but during the days that, have since elapsed,. thousands a lot of amusing speculation among. the rustic Too Good to Last Perhaps the best indication of their character and temper is their behaviour on the streets and roads, Ordinarily the Chinese soldier. takes the middle of the highway and. is very surly indeed if he has to give way to anything. These men seem (0 be trained to make as much room for traffic as possible ears are evidently a novelty to their and pack mules and when one meets them in a narrow roadway there is much havoc in the ranks, bat such occurrences elicit no uns pleasant remarks, 'The comnionest Chinese comment upon all reports of Shansi's good behaviour or good intentions, as set forth by the various military and civil officials who have come in, that the Shansi regime will not last long-—it's too good to last,' There seems to be a foding that decency and moderation are out of keeping with the spirit of the times, that a Shans{ administration in the capital is bound to be shortlived—merely the pleasant prelude to unlimited isquiot and disorder which will commence when the reformers begin to arrive and elbow these amiable mountaineers out of the high places.
It is the general conviction that in spite of all opposition Feng Yuhsiang is determined to be the master of Peking and Tientsin in the very near future and that neither Yen Hsi-shan nor Chiang Kai-shek will.be prepared this year to resent openly the establishment of a Kuomin chun administration in Chili,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.