It is reported from China that Chiang Kai-shek is at
last starting on his advance from Nanking against Peking.- The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says that his armies are equipped with a large propaganda department, whose business is to convert the civilians of the North. The method has, of course, been borrowed from the Bol- shevists, though it is said that Bolshevist teaching will be prohibited. The defenders of Peking have to watch the movements of both Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang (the Christian General), who is at present occupying Chengchow, the junction of the Peking-Hankow and Lunghai railways. At the moment Peking seems to be inclined to bestow much more attention upon Feng than upon Chiang. Chiang—if he is really ready to move, though this is doubtful—probably thinks that this givei him his chance; Feng's representatives seem to 'have considerable influence at Narikink and the alliance be- tween Feng and Chiang may be called firm as Chinese alliances go. _„. * * *
