Feb, Valiant efforts are being made to ascertain the exact relation of the Government of China to the stirring events now being staged in the neighbourhood of Shanghai. Indeed the difficulty is to establish the identity of that Government. It is plain, from telegrams recently to hand, that Mr, Lin Son is holding the fort at Loyang a3 Chief Executive of the Government, The principle is not unknown to the chess play-who is always cautioned against exposing his King, at any rate in the early stages' of the Jgame, But when it is stated that Mr, Wang Ching-wei, General Chiang Kai-shek and General Feng Vu-hsiang are directing the affairs of the Government in the course of various railway journeys to certain more or less distant cities, its relevancy to the grim facts of Shanghai seems a Hittle obscure. There is a Foreign Minister in the person Mr, Lo Wen-kan but his resignation has been announced and denied. Dr. Wellington Koo has recently issued a statement as if from the Foreign Office. Mr. 'T. V. Soong is believed to be back the Central Bank of China, wrestling in some grimness with a parlous state of the na-fHional finances. But on what authority these politicians are ex-acuting or professing to execute the functions of members of the!
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