Progress in China The absence of news of any importance
from China in the past few, weeks has been on the whole a good sign, for, the quiet progress of consalid4ion rarely attracts attention. And consolidation is definitely going forward, • particularly in the matter of the elimination of, the Communist forces in Kiangsi and Fukien. What is more significant, the success achieved, there by the Nanking armies was due in part to the _co-operation of Canton, whose virtually autonomous government seems now disposed to modify its tradition of half- hostile detachment from the National Government. That is not the end of the Communist menace, for marauding bands, nominally Communist but at least as much bandit, exist in other provinces of China, where operations against them are in progress. The central executive committee of the Kuomintang, which, is . today as much the sole party in ,China as the Fascists are in Italy is now in session, and it is of some importance that a few Cantonese are present. Unification is making slow, but visible, progress.
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