By far the most interesting news from China concerns the
growing cleavage between the extreme and moderate Nationalists. Borodin, at the head of the Cantonese Reds, is ranged against General Chiang Kai-shek, the Cantonese Commander-in-Chief. Borodin remains as a kind of dictator at Hankow and Chiang Kai-shek is at Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi. Chiang Kai-shek, however, controls Canton. Borodin is being helped by General Tang Sheng-chih, who formerly fought for the North but seceded to the Red cause. The Hong-Kong correspondent of the Times says that Borodin is trying to win back Canton by persuading Wang Ching-wei to emerge from the retirement into which Chiang Kai-shek forced him last year. Wang Ching-wei is the well- known intellectual revolutionary who was once sentenced to imprisonment, for life for an attempt to assassinate the Prince Regent. He served only two years of the sentence.
