News of the Week
THE news from China is more confused and scantier -I- than usual. The Times -correspondent says that Sun Chuan-fang was not pursued during his retreat from Chekiang and that he has re-assembled some 40,000 men in the Sungkiang district. Trenches have been dug and machine-gun nests have been planted. This district is a labyrinth of creeks which are overflowing from the recent heavy rains. It is unlikely, however, that Sun Chuan-fang will continue in command. Large reinforcements of Shantung troops are arriving by the Nanking-Shanghai railway and their leader, Chang Tsang-chang, will probably supersede Sun. In a conver- sation with the special correspondent of the Times Chang Tsung-chang said that he hoped to put 320,000 men in the field, though not more than a few thousands had already reached the Sungkiang front. He described the Cantonese as BiAshevists who aimed at handing over the Igbo1g°gountry to the mob and destroying the social 'Ysteln. He and his colleagues, he said, were opposed to the destruction of Chinese capital and property as well as of the foreign treaties. He added that in Honan all trootik'disloyal to Wu Pei-fu would be disarmed, after which Chang Tso-lin (the Manchurian war lard and ruler 'of Peking) would be free to begin his main campaign 'against the Cantonese.-
