Another week has brought no elucidation of events in China.
It is satisfactory that the Nationalist Foreign Minister at Shanghai has returned the stolen wings of the British aeroplane which had made an accidental descent on the International Race Course. He yielded to pressure from the Chinese military leaders, who were .naturally much embarrassed by the cutting of the railway by General Duncan's orders. Immediately the wings had been returned General Duncan had the railway repaired. Last Sunday British Marines were landed from H.M.S. ' Hawkins ' for the protection of property at Nanking. Nanking is expecting the arrival of the Northern forces any day. Sun Chuan-fang is now seated on the opposite bank of the Yangtze, wonder- ing whether it is safe to cross. Meanwhile the Nationalists are at sixes and sevens. The Peking correspondent. of the Times says that there are at least two military factions among the armies attached to Nanking and as many, and perhaps more, among the Hankow armies. Nanking and Hankow are continually exchanging views and deputations, but even if they decide on a common policy they will yet have to discover whether the soldiers will carry it out.
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