The situation in China is calmer than a week ago.
Sun Yat-sen arrived in Peking last Saturday, and so far from being assassinated, as had been thought possible, he had a splendid reception, which rivalled (says a Renter message) that of Yuan Shih-kai when he entered Peking during the revolu- tion. The Assembly has not met for lack of members, and, the proposal to impeach the Government has fallen through. Yuan Shih-kai and Sun Yat-sen have announced after a long and amicable after-dinner conversation that they are perfectly agreed on all important questions. Sun Yat-sen has evidently given no encouragement whatever to his extreme Radical friends to agitate the question of the summary execution of the two officers which was said to be driving North and South to civil war. Rather in public speeches he has urged concentra- tion—the need for a strong Central Government representing both North and South—and has eulogized Yuan Shih-kai as a great man and the best possible President.
