18 AUGUST 1928, Page 2

Meanwhile the Kuomintang has great difficulty in hanging together. General

Feng Yu-hsiang is still at Nanking, but the more surely his troops dominate Peking and the North, the less certainty there is that he will consent to a powerful Central Government at Nanking. Chiang Kai-shek is said to be working for unity, and trying to bring to nought the local councils established in Peking, Canton, and Hankow. An acknowledgment only has been received so far in Tokyo to the stiff Japanese Note in regard to the abrogation of her treaties. Chang Tso-lin's son in Manchuria is in an uncomfortable position while Tokyo and Nanking fight over his body.

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