The Chinese Tragi-Comedy - * * * * Act Four
of the Chinese tragi-comedy has • concluded' with the complete disctimfiture of the -Wuhan Generals, many of whom have decided to accept a small gratuity and " pursue their studies abroad." With the lapse of the ten year old Mini Einhargti,ils frimi Ara' 26th, —and this is tantamount to an admission by the Powers that Chiang Kai-shek'S Government eiercises " effective " authority throughout the whole country—the stage is set for the fifth Act: The anouement still evidently rests with Feng Yu-hsiang. The Christian General is held by Nanking to be in his prOper place when controlling unruly Mohammedan elements in the north-west, and nothing more is being said about turning over Shantung to him after the departure of the Japanese. He is no doubt chagrined, particularly at the refusal of Nanking to trust him with a sea-port. The news that Chiang Kai-shek's men had -occupied Tsingtao was too much for Feng's second-in-command in the province, and he has now betaken himself with all the Kuominchun (Feng's Army) to Honan. Trouble is stirring, too, in Shanghai, where the ChineSe merchants are bravely standing up to the political bullying of the Shanghai branch of the Kuomintang.
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