The Archive · 1933

Town and Country

Dec. 7.

In 0 sad an economic depressions, that presently. prevailing fin China it is stimulating to. record views which seem "to hold out promise of improvement. To-jin a despatch published where, a competent observ-appreciation of conditions in the North in comparison with the uncertainties in Shanghai worth examination in. that sense, and even greater success in the k's armies. Despite the A\ attention is paid to the possibi: high office to which he oes. Unqualified gratitude is "due to him for his brilliant vindleation of the soundness of Sino. British friendship. He steered the course undeterred by political mishaps and unshaken by sad domestic bereavement. He has deserved well of China and glowing optimism of a recent, Canton message, it is by no means clear that the Communists jof Kiangsi have shot, their bolt. This in itself ts a serious matter for the' consideration of Nan Ichang. There, the headquarter lof General Chiang Kai-thek's operations for many months, it is, [believed that exceedingly stron of his country. No better tribute e! fences have been constructed. not merely of arresting rural decay which in the long tun must, be harmful to urban areas like Shanghai, but of actually giv= ing rural development a new lease of life, In the North the exten sion of electrical power is assisted by the availability of coal supe lies." While cotton growing can market which China's cotton mille aperly encouraged fort could be tendered.

That chain of blockhouses however, more suitable for fending General Kai-shek against

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