Deo, Tux recent, scare of a Southern coup in Chekiang is another example of the advi lity of taking civil war news with a very large pinch of salt. While the majority of papers in Shanghai were declaring that the Cantonese troops had marched into Hangchow and taken possession, Cantonese soldiers were nearer than Changshan on the western, Kiangsi, border of Ché- kiang, and it is open to doubt! whether there are any, at least force, even there. Of course, with the railway cut, anything might happen; and on Thursday some of the best informed people jin Shanghai believed that Hangchow had gone over to the South. Even this proved untrue and on Friday railway and other communications were open again between Shanghai and Hangchow The defection of the 3rd} Division does not add much to the odds against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, as this is the [sion which betrayed him at Ki The remainder of Chen val, as is the Civil Governor himself. The exact course of events is still obscure in some points, But there appears no doubt that General Chen -Yi, influenced by the
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