11 AUGUST 1928, Page 2

* * * General Feng Yu-hsiang appears to be making

appeals, to the eye at any rate, against the rapacity and corruption of others compared with his own sea-green incor- ruptibility. In the North there is no doubt that he and his troops are at present by far the most powerful elements. The Kuomintang has finally expelled Judge Loo Hsing-yuan from the Provisional Court at Shanghai and installed its own tool. Chiang Kai-shek seems to flutter uneasily to and fro between Nanking and Shanghai, while a new young extremist, Chen Kung-po, threatens to exercise a growing influence. As regards Great Britain it is said, but not yet confirmed, that the negotiations over the outrages at Nanking have been satisfactorily concluded.

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