It Kuangtung had no task to perform than the expulsion of these plundering, blood-thirsty hordes, it could afford to go about its work with a smile, confident in its own strength and abilities, Uafortunately, the better-informed ple in this region are quite down in the mouth, feeling sure that the North River fighting is as the black cloud that comes before the storm.
Tt is known heve that troops of Chiang Kai-shek have been ordered into Kiangsi, ostensibly to deal wits the radicals who have been running wild throughout the province. And it is likewise known that General Li Chung-jen has been trying to prevail upon the Kuangtung authorities to rush troops into southern Kiangsi, and that this request will undoubtedly be complied with as} soon as the situation on the North River improves a bit. Again the excuse given is the necessity for driving the Reds out of Looking at the matter in the light political history, however, ulterior motive stands out as plain as day; at least so claim the political prognosticators. On the part of the Commarder-in-chief, as they see is a move to acquire territory that will give him an easy approach to Kuangtung so that he may, moving his armies from that province a> 'a base, at any time deliver a sudden and powerful blow that will make him the master of Canton, counter-move, these prophets be-Jieve, an invasion of Kiangsi from the south will take place. The in-
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