The news from China is as perplexing as ever. Evidently
the heart of the fighting between the Southerners and the Northerners is round about Tsinanfu, the capital of Shantung. It is impossible to say when we write who has the mastery there as both sides have been reported to have it, but the balance of progress is on the side of the South. In this stricken province of Shantung bandits are preying upon both armies. Probably they are almost compelled to do this in order to live, though many of them may be deserters from the armies. The Southern Generals do not appear to be co-operating with Feng Yu-hsiang, the Christian General, though the whole idea of the advance was at first said to rest upon this co-operation. Feng is now credited with an intrigue to overthrow the Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek.
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