Kai-shek is back again role of holding off both north and south, Gloomy prospects may "be abear News from Peking:
in the Peking Letter published today reference is made to the now gradually developing anti-Kuomintang movement in the orth. }will be read with considerable interest, especially in view of recent, developments, and it indicates that im|the Peking Corres mndent_of this mal is very well in touch with There is one point, however, Jon. which brief "comment might He states that the Nortiiermers do not consider that they have been fairly treated because not a single cent of Customs revenue ever goes back to the North under the present system, and that the present financial difficulties "of even. the educational institutions in jate entirely owing to the abi the funds which contended that Canton is allowed to retain a portion of the (Customs funds for its own use. As fla matter of fact, Canton does not receive any portion of the Customs revenue, and is now treated not dif-fervently' but, precisd in the same manner as Poking for the simple reason that Sir Frederick Maze, a:
servant of the recognised Government of China, follows the correct principle of remitting Customs revenue to Nanking, Before Sir Fre derick established the Head Office lot the Inspectorate in Nanking, with a branch office in Shanghai, he former. Peking Government was, he. recognised Government and, as such, received the entire Customs Revenue, which was remitted to the Northern "Authorities, even when the: Kuomintang Government's headquarters were in Nanking and when they controlled about sixty "per cent, or seventy per cent. of Chinese territory.
It is incorrect, therefore, assert that at the present time the North is being less favourably treated than the South in regard to the distribution of Customs Revenue.
The Dean of Canterbury The Very Reverend Dr, Hewlett Johnson, who has been visiting Shanghai and who preached at the Cathedral on March 11 is an lish divine of greateminence and in-nonce. Before being appointed to the Deanery of Canterbury—he comes here as the direct agent of the Archbishop—to was for seven years Dean of" Munchester, where
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