24 APRIL 1926, Page 2

Meanwhile most of the so-called National Army which had been

defending Peking has disappeared to the North and various members of the Cabinet who had sought sanctuary have reappeared though the improvised Committee of Public Safety has not yet disappeared. Wu has announced that Peking is " a den of Bolshevists ". and-that his work will not be finished till they are exter- minated. The best thing that could happen would be for Wu and Chang to come at last to an enduring agree- ment. It would not greatly matter what their motive was—whether mere weariness or a genuine anti-Bolshevist ardour. There is no hope of progress till there is a stable Government of some sort. Possibly Chang will be content to develop Manchuria and-will leave Wu at Peking.

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