Although Hsinyangchow has not fallen, there is still plenty of confidence of ultimate success on the Part of the Hupeh forees, For the city is invested on three sides, so that the only outlet of the defen-to the north, Gen, Chiang to have lost at least half of his men by death, wounds or desertion, and the total number of Honan troops inside the city is reported to be not more than 3,000. Meanwhile, the other enemies of the Kuominchun are reported pressing in from Shensi on the east and Anhui on the west, Two Hupeh brigades have pushed on past Hsin-yang and are threatening Chioshan further north. It is reported that, Chuang Shih-chieh, the general defending Hsinyang, has already sent his family and portable property by rail to Chengchow. On the way the train was stopped by bandits, the General's wife was captured and carried off, and had to be ransomed by a payment, of $100,000, Wu Peicfu's Al Wan Pei-fu is winning allies, i spite of his initial slowness of sue-cess. It ig -reparted that Chang 'Teo-lin has sent another special envoy, to assure Wu of his stipport and c0-operation, and promising the sum of $1,000,000 to assist in the expenses of his armies. Gen. Yuan Tso-min of Kueichow, has offered to contribute a similar' sum towards. Wu's war chest, and also to send four mixed brigades to assist in the military operations. The old. talk of an alliance of provinces with Wa Peisfu as the recognized chief i still being carried on, There is hardly any doubt that, as soon military success is assured Vu, Pei-fu will proceed to Loyang, and provisional government will be set up in Central China to which the provinees of Anhui, Kiangsi, Hunan, Hupeh, Honan and probabi ly others will own allegiance. times dealt. with similar tendent in their domains. That this process of degeneration goes o% here in the Capital, unchecked and almost unrebuked, is ample evidence that the ionly elements in this entity (the capital) which we call the Government of China, the only] elements which are not our frank and open enemies and the servants of the Soviet, are absolutely Powerless to put 'a check upon what must be an abomination—of abominations in their sight.
is the grave} ies of the Commission this ity reading model codes, attending staged trials in model courts and calling upon the bright} and happy prisoners in the model gaol The foreign advocates of the! abolition of extraterritoriality always say, when someone—indicates the' rapid anti-foreignism the agitators as an objection:
ho extremists might gave a little trouble, but we can rely upon the common sense of the saner_and better elements." Yet here t we have a situation in the schools of the Metropolis crying for xeform—a reform a thousand times dearer to the hearts of not only the saner and better elements but to all Chinese except those who profit from Red agitation than anything affecting the foreigner—and—the dare not touch it. Suppose that, lacking extraterritoriality, the radicals who rule this town and not insure the sanity and decency of their own children in the school have to say about it? They'd wag their heads and say "Ai-ya!" they do about everything else.
The Boxer Money We are promised a visit in the near future from a British delega-ion which ts to determine how the portion of the British indemnity is to be spent.
'a subject upon which the writer as an American probably should not touch, for the British certainly have a vight to spend their money in their own way without imoddting or advice, He can state that he fervently hopes that they will not vote to spend it as foolishly as the Americans have spent theirs, that ts in the educa tion of loquacious and sclfassured young men who are no sooner out of our hands than they become our most implacable and dangerous enemies. It need only be added on this score that the Dutch have recently won the lasting respect of not only all foreigners but all Chinese in this country by arranging to devote their returned portion of the indemnity to be used yin conservancy—work—employing Dutch engineers and using Dutch mater They propose to do something useful for the Chinese people, instead of—providing a new army of glib-tongued lackey's and apologists for the high militarists or fresh fields of endea-your for the China branch of the Third International. its so-called Government were to insist that all foreigners should] wear dog collars with their Chinese names on them and step into the gutter when passing a Chinese garage coolie, what would. the saner Detter' elements, who can-
Tue Canton authorities, who now recognize the "new" New Year, have forbidden the people to observe "old practice" -of celebrating the "old" China New-Year,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.