General Ho Ying-chin has returned to Peiping whence he made a dramatic [departure on June 12 for the purpose of laying before the Government at Nanking certain demands from the [Japanese military authorities in the North. Those demands were considered by him to be impossible and they were described as converting the North of China into a virtual Japenese dominion. Since then fovents have developed apace. The constant pressure of the Japanese military in Tientsin and Peiping has indicated that the demands which General Ho Ying-chin could not accept have practically found fulflment by the reshuflling and readjustments which have occurred in the interval, A subversive movement, the inspiration of which cannot be ignored, has assumed sinister proportions. The Government at Nanking has sent General Ho Ying-chin to perform a dimeult task. It seems to be cepted in advance that he cannot avert the inevitable, This accentus-jon of the crisis is further illustrated by' the reports of Japanese troop movements. General Sung Chehyuan Is now reported to have officlally" admitted the existence of the demand for autonomy. The con-[siderations "which prompt that admission may be variously interpreted. Tt would not be surprising it the people of the North, troubled by the Jalarums and excursions in the midst of which they have been moving in recent months, had desperately com? to the conclusion that support of the autonomy prescription might bring them some sort of relief. Yet it would "probably be wrong, in the Tight of the pressure to which the administration in Peiping and elsewhere has been subjected, to assume that this attitude reflected any real desire {0 break off relations with Nanking.
Norway—and it 's generally agreed that Shanghai has been most fortunate in being able to command his ripe experience and sage judgment in the several emergencies through which it has passed. Of the personal qualities the retiring representative of the United States Government it will be convenient to write more fully when the time of his departure is nearer. The representative gathering which assembled at his house to bid tare well to him on the eve of his actual retirement from official duty bore eloquent testimony to the community's esteem. Now, having handed over charge to the acting Consul-General Mr. Monnett B. Davis, a comparatively recent arrival who has already made his mark here, Mr. Cunningham is properly free to receive those tributes, of friendship which Shanghai supremely manages to adorn with warmth and no little colour.
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