The situation in China is no clearer. Last week we
said that everything would depend upon the agreement come to about the division of the spoils between Chang Tso-lin. and Wu Pei-fu who in alliance are attacking Peking. We do not yet know what arrangements they may have made. If both do not receive satisfaction they may easily be fighting against one another in a few days or weeks. In the past they have often changed from alliance to hostility in the true Chinese fashion. The recent appeal from the rulerg in Peking to Wu to come and take control there was probably a mere manoeuvre to detach him from Chang. Wu himself is not near Peking though some of his advance troops are just outside the city and he is evidently still thinking things over. The chief military progress has been made by Chang, who can apparently enter Peking whenever he likes.
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