General Tsai Ting-kai, the slight, thin-faced "hero of Shanghai," who! commanded the 19th Route ' Army during the Sino-Japanese hostilities the vicinity of Shanghai in the 'Spring of 1933, is certainly not with out honour, save in his own land. 'The extensive preparations made by' the Chinese community of New York to welcome him to the United States, including one of those _tumultuous ity welcomes and motor car parades with the city loves to bestow on distinguished or unusual guests, shows lundisguisedly what the overseas Chinese think of the man who was able to hold back the Japanese army with the inadequate forces at his disposal. Then it was the fashion to praise! General Tsai to the skies and shower jon him gifts and commendations for his bravery, but—politico-military estimations in China are fickle and. fleeting. It is not so many months igo that the self-same man who was dubbed the "hero of Shanghai" was' Participating in the Fukien revolt which aimed at establishing a new independent government and king was doing its best to make out; that General Tsai was seeking an alliance with the Communists, the very people he was supposed to be suppressing when he and his army were transported hastily to that province after the cessation of hostilities locally. But still like all these Chinese situations there isa. great element of make-believe and General Tsai will continue to wear his honours proudly abroad in spite of what his political opponents in China think about him. accordance with an order issued by the Central Kuomintang, the birthday anniversary of Confucius on August 27 will be observed as a national holiday—for the first time jin the history of the republic. AIL government offices will be closed on that day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.