More certain a sign of than the cuckoo at Jessfield of northern the present Nanking regi pointed out, in the "North-China Daily News" the portents are ominous. There was a feeling that the "Government was attempting] to. shelve the responsi ley for. the Sino-Japanese Iby convening the Emergency Conerence at "Loyang, and indeed Jduring the period of the hostilities there. was a cessation of those internal politics which make the nese scene so unstable, but the time seems to have arrived when provincial discontent can no. longer be held in check. General Han Fu-jehu, the Governor of Shantung, is reported to have decided to seize che provincial revenues and has issued a statement which is tant-Jamount to open rebellion, As the pivotal figure in. any situation between Nanking and the north, he is the most important. factor in any, dispute between Nanking and the north, and his reference to similar action by. the soatbern provinees is assurance of their sympathy in any move he might make. General Chang "Hsueh-liang is having a dificult time consolidating his own position in what was considered vir {ually hostile territory to him before the Manchurian trouble. Gen-
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