The Generalissimo arrived here by air on October 22 and has been, slaying at the hot springs at Linking. where the China Travel Service operate a good hotel. There were {he usual evidences of the presence reatness—a display of fags from Shops, an Incrensed Sleantfgss in the streets and a forcible closing to ordinary trae of the roads along which the General's cir was to go. done, the very dogs being chased off by the bayonets of the guards, but the authorities know their business best and it Is only right to take pretutions for so precious a life, There Is a growing conviction that this supremely dificult time China has produced a real leader and that if In the next ten years there is the same patience and success as in the Jost the results in national unifeation and progress wilt be so remarkable to cause Gen. Chiang Kal-shek to rank among the great figures of his tory.
He has had serious problems to! tackle here. It is rumoured that Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and Gen, Yang Huchen have not been seeing eye to eye and the Communist situation In Kansu seems to have reached stalemate, The Reds hold a section In the south of that province and fare on the main roads between here and Lanchow but there has been no Aghting for some time as apparently neither side wants it though large numbers of troops were moved to the west,
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