Rumour is again busy with the possibility of a truce
between North and South. The whole object of the Soviet was to create Communists and lead them against old-fashioned persons like Chang Tso-lin, but the result is that China, in spite of the existence of various rival Nationalist Governments, is at last furnished with one opinion that is common from end to end-- Of China. If Chiang Kai-shek is reappointed military leader of the Nanking Nationalists the work of general reunion may be carried a stage further, but the Peking correspondent of the Times thinks that Feng Yu-hsiang (the Christian General) and Yen Hsi-shen (the " model " Tuchun of Shansi) desire Chiang's restoration simply in order that they may be strengthened against their detested enemy Chang Tso-lin. Meanwhile reports .come of a ghastly series of executions by the " Reds " in Canton and elsewhere. H.M.S. ' Seraph ' succeeded in rescuing some missionaries who were on the point of being tortured and killed at Syiabue, a . seaport eighty miles_ north of Hong-kong,
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