The Reorganization Party makes three demands : (1) the summoning
of a new session of the Kuomintang which must not be packed ; (2) the expulsion of corrupt officials ; (8) the appointment of Wang Ching-wei as Nationalist leader. Wang Ching-wei was formerly the Left Wing chairman of the Canton Government. All the signs suggest that the object of the Reorganization Party is to found a new Government at Canton and from that centre to challenge Nanking. General Chang Fat-kwai was one of the most successful of Chiang- Kai-shek's Generals in the Nationalist advance to the North and it would be strange if from Canton he followed the same route to defeat his former master. If it be true that the redoubt- able Feng Yu-hsiang is helping Chang Fat-kwai it is a serious fact. The background of all this new unsettlement is the dispute between Nanking and Moscow. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times thinks that the Soviet may be playing for time in the Chinese Eastern Railway crisis in the belief that the Nanking Government cannot survive very long. But even though the declara- tion of loyalty to Nanking by some of Feng's officers may not mean very much, Nanking has an advantage in the possession of the Customs.
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