* * * * China Events have moved in China,
and moved at last in favour of the Nanking Government as against the North. Chiang Kai-shek's armies have advanced and taken Tsinanfu, apparently with ease. Feng Yu-hsiang has been loudly drawing attention to the great service that his Kuominchun armies have been rendering to the Northern armies from his position on the Western flank of the Nanking forces, but he does not seem to have created much diversion. If his troops were seriously engaged, they were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, the troops in H.M.S. 'Cumberland,' on the Yangtze, have been withdrawn from Hankow, but another cruiser, H.M.S. Berwick,' will take her place. Orders have been issued for H.M.'s Consulate at Changsha to be closed down for the winter, to the dismay of traders in Hunan. From the British residents in Wei-hai-wei has come another appeal against the return of the concession by His Majesty's Government to the nominal Chinese Government : it supports the piteous pleas of the Chinese in three hundred villages that we will not throw them back to the wolves, to their countrymen who would in no time reduce their peaceful villages to the conditions prevailing inland.
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