The effects of this failure of a Kuomintang trying to act indepen ently are only too plainly visible. In the summer, the Moscow Bolshevists could not conceal their discomfiture over C They had alled, and the causes of this reverse were hotly debated between the Stalin group and the Trotsky. Opposition, In the latest speech of Bukharin, now head of the Third International and a prominent me ber of the Stalin group and the Soviet Politbureau, there is new note of confidence in regard to Chin Amid the continuing chaos, the propects for the Bolshevists are again improving. As if to confirm his words Communists have just scored 'a success after their own manner. in Canton, once the centre of the Kuomintang. Canton has_ suffered many vicissitudes since Sun Yat-son established there an uneasy throne, Of late it was under the control of a certain Li Chai-sum, an ally of Chiang Kai-shek after' his defection from Hankow, and a ce! paratively reasonable man, not i different to the interests of tra with Hongkong. He had dificult with the Labour unions, but trolled them. During his absence nee with the Kuomin-dors he was ousted by Other forces, pink and red, were at large in the province of Kwangtung, and one of these, apparently thoroughly red, has now overthrown Chang Fa-kwai in his turn. The combined with the Lamany public building ton fire, the gaols opened, the police disbanded, and the banks looted. 'Thereupon a Soviet Government' was set up, cluding a former secretary of Borodin. A Communist so-called pot sant force some tite ago took pos session of Swatow. It may be that this movement, too, will be suppressed for a time by some resolute Tuchun, but that in itself would be no solution. The irregular actions of successive Tuchuns in Banke the plain indications of systematic subversive action in Shanghai itself, the incredibly chaotic conditions in Honan under Feng Vu-hsiang, whose connections are more than doubtful, ut who has fortunately just failed in his offensive against Shantung—these and a score of other symptoms suggest that the unending personal rivalries and the petty selfishness of most of the Ohinese military and political leaders constitute the very gravest danger for China. The misery that is the direct result of this state of affairs gives fresh opportunities for the Bolshevists, who have already suffered one re-Verse. All the signs are that they have been quick to perceive their advantage, A cat killed at Gosford, New South Wales, had in its stomach a pair of gold sleeve-links, a old collar-stud, and a gold safety. The sale of veal and ham. pies settlers from Aberdeen is since sai to have increased 100 per the Soviet Government in cing its Tite Russian papers report that
ents in Harbin us. "fences! to impose of valuables stolen In Russia, Recently, porcelain tea-sets' and dinner-sets Telonsing to the former: Emperor, Nicholas' IT, "and. jewellery," holy mages, and. church ware,. brought Vid the Sovtorgiot, have been sold there,
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