It is open talk among all classes of the population, that in this crisis the North has again been left complete in the lurch by the Central Gover: ment. It is said that at the beginning the Central Government sent General Sung strong telegrams urging him to resist and not to cede an inch of territory. But when he telegraphed in reply asking very pertinently what support he could expect from Nanking in the way of war material, reinforcements and money, he was left without a reply. There is little doubt that sudden and quite unexpected weakening of the fighting spirit of the 29th Army has been due to the belief that they could expect no immediate assistance from Nanking.
There is much speculation in foreign circles as to what the Nanking Government is going to do, now that it is faced with this fresh fait ae. compli by the Japanese military. Among the Chinese public there is no great hope that anything will be done, and people are already beginning to shrug their shoulders and say, "Well. if the Central Government can't help us, what can we do? We shall have to make the best of it, as the people in the Three Eastern Provinces have had to do."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.