The military factions in China are once more busy. The
Northern armies are attacking simultaneously the forces of Feng Yu-hsiang and those of the model Tuchun Of Shansi. The advance against Feng seems to be much the more important of the two. The Peking corre- spondent of the Times says that Feng has been forced to retire largely as the result of his unsuccessful attempt to destroy the "Heavenly Gates" organization. This organization is composed of peasants who have banded themselves together in self-defence against both soldiers and robbers. It seems that Feng while attacked by the Northern troops on his front has had to defend his rear against the peasants. It is impossible to say whether the peasants have attacked him merely in order to punish one who is said to have treated them mercilessly and rapaciously or whether they are acting by arrangement with the Northerners, whom they believe to be the stronger. We hear nothing further of the projected movement of Chiang Kai-shek from Nanking. Perhaps he is not ready or he may be waiting to see what happens to his allies. The latter is of all dangerous policies the most dangerous. He may look on till it is too late.
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