There appears every prospect that General Chiang Kei-shek's promise to Hunan when he announced the despatch of the 4th, 6th, 8th and armies to hold back the Kuangsi and Tnonsides invaders, that peace and order should be restored within ten days, will duly be made good. On Tuesday General Ho Chien, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, reoccupied Changsha; and to-day comes the welcome news of. the expulsion of the Communists in South-eastern Hupeh from Tayeh and the Yangtze bank at -Huang-shi-kang and Shihuiyao.—The wonder is that the Kuangsi forces ever got so far, Our Changsha correspondent described them. their entry as ragged and tired and they cannot possibly have had much, ammunition, It was presumably a question.of superior. numbers till the Government's reinforcements could arrive, The driving back of the Communists shows what might be done if only the Government had its hands free from the wasting war with the North, and gives new weight to the urgency of the plea for truce and a settlement, Hankow and Wuchang are for Nanking the heel of Achilles. Had the Kuangel army captured the Han cities, the position for the Government must have been very serious. This danger seems happily averted and thas gives occasion to consider the Northern imbroglio afresh, Short of some miracle it must be thought as impossible for Nanking to, conquer the North as for the latter triumph over its Southern Nothing can be expected Mi of the war but armies backward Grey Zon impoverishment, of all alike. Surely the practical common sence which iz strong in Chinese nature can rise superior to the petty and futile of politicians, which are spring of to terms.
The action against the Communists at Tayen shows what could be done, though of course as yet the Red snake cannot ever be said to have been scotched, The North, too, has its own pressing trouble in the case of the'dreadfal famine in Kansu and Shensi. Will not the leaders come together to give the country peace?
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