26 MARCH 1927, Page 2

When we go to press Nanking is on the point

of falling. Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian War Lord, declares that he is making good progress through Honan and that he will soon embarrass the Cantonese by falling on them from the west. But we have heard these declarations before. We feel about them rather as Miss Flite felt about the Court of Chancery. " Judgment is coming. So is the Day of Judgment ! "

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