In China General, Chang Tso-lin still halts at Tientsin and
his conference with Wu Pei-fu has not come to pass. He has secured the resignation of Mr. W. W. Yen, the Premier in Peking, and one of Wu Pei-fu's men. It is said that there will be an agreement for a singularly frank and cynical system of " rotatavism " by which the Chihli party will form a Government in Peking to be succeeded after a year or so by a Mukden government for the next year. We should not trust the parties to such an arrangement any more than they probably trust one another, The name of Dr. Wellington Koo is coming up again and brings a gleam of hope since he has at any rate a good knowledge of foreign nations and international duties. Nothing is done to regain control of the Salt Gabelle. Meanwhile we are told that negotiations are imminent for " settling " the Hong Kong boycott.
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