On the other hand it i not! thought that the advance along the railway from Shanghai can possibly reach Tientsin before the rains may put a stop: to any extensive! operations and that serious fighting in that direction is closed for the season, if, indeed, the armies of Chiang Kai-shek may not presently: be actual allies of the northern forces of Fengtien and Shansi in a combination to clean out once and for ull Feng Vu-hsiang and the Borodin crew. There are, however, not lacking some, though they are fat the moment @ very small minority, who aver that Yen Hsi-shan is merely waiting to come in at the psyckologieal moment in support of the forces coming up from Hankow, making the Fengtien position untenable and assuring the early occupation of the capital by the Reds, The whole situation would seem, in the last analysis, to hang on what may eventually prove to be the real position of the Tuchun of Shansi—a matter which only time can definitely settle—and in the meantime those who are most keoninterested must content themselves with watchful waiting. But, the one thing which does seem to stand out in the whole business fairly cortuin is that, whatever may, the outcome, something in the nature of a real burst of fireworks is due to take place, in the very near future, somewhere on the railway in northern Honan, 'THe person in HM, Police Coart, om wednesday, who stole a Police Inspector's walking-stick "showed no little nerve,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.