Events - in China have been moving faster. One result ofthe
submission of the Chinese Generals to the ultimatum " of the Great Powers demanding that the Peiho river should be 'reopened in accordance with the Protocol of 1901, was a nationalist demonstration in -Peking. _ The inevitable students tried to screw .up the _Government to a fresh defiance, and the_result of the rioting was that . Chinese troops opened fire on the demonstrators, many of whom. were killed: Feng, the Christian General, rebuked_ the Chief Executive for resorting to force when " gentler means ought to have been enough, and the rebuke was generally taken to mean that Feng intended to turn out the Cabinet and put in officials of a more Bolshevist - colour.- Whatever Feng may have intended, however, • events were too much for him. The advance of his allied enemies, Wu Pei-fu and Chang 'Tso-lin, towards Peking continued and Feng's "National " armies. ran short of ammunition. On Monday Feng's troops abandoned • Tientsin.
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