When we write the menace at Shanghai seems to be
rather of such labour and mob troubles as the Bolshevist spirit stirs up all Over Southern and Middle China than of the arrival of the Cantonese. troops. The. Shanghai War Lordi---Stm— Chuan-4ang,-=hvis-evidently -checked -the Kuomintang troops who haveabandoned the whole of Chekiang. Meanwhile, though it is no doubt hoped that the local authorities at Shanghai will be able to secure themselves against domestic troubles, Great Britain— supported, we may hope, by the other Powers—must regard herself as responsible in the last resort for what we have just described as an elementary duty. It is for this reason that. the first Cruiser Squadron has been ordered to Chinese waters and a thousand Marines are being 'sent out in the Union Castle liners, Kinfauns Castle,' and Kildonan Castle,' specially requisitioned by the Government.
