Evening star., 1928-08-12

tian Peasant party. is dead as the result
Of wounds received in the affair OF
June 90
China is there rift In that in
strument of celestial melody, the Ma
tionalist lute2 What Of this develop
ment relating to Yen Hsi Shan2 Yen
Hsi Shan is for / / years has beenI
Tuchun Of Shansi Province by his own
devising. Since his recent capture OF
Peking he has, by appointment from
Marking been governor Of the Picking
TientSin area. He Is member Of the
great Nationalist triumviratc to-wit
Chang Kai Shek, Feng Yu Hsiang and
Yen Hsi Shan The other day Yen
boarded a train at Peking, ostcnsibly 10
attend the fifth picnary session of the
Kuomintang at Nanking little out
SIDE Peking ne was stricken with ap-
pendicitis $50 his official communique
ram and he ordered his train detected
To his ShanSi capital, Tai Yuan. that he
might be treated there Now why
didn't he go back 10 Peking where thC
facilities for such treatment are far the
best in China? Naturally the question
Is asked, whether old Yen developed ap-
pcndiCitis IN the Aesculapian or In the
political sense Is there a rift IN the
celestial lutte?
later report has it that the Shansl
troops are being withdrawn from the
Pcking -TientSin area
l reported in last Sundays issue that
the NTH plenary session Of the Kuomin-
tang central executive committee
opened at Nanking on August L. II
didn't so open, because a quorum was
not forthcoming. this chiefly because
the Cantonese group. always difficult.
were again making difficulties and hold
ing off The situation was causing un-
easiness. and no wonder, since this
DlcnarY session was tn be a love feast
usherlng In the millennium But q
quorum at last achieved, the session
opened on August 8
Not least important Of the develop
nentS TO be watched in China Is the
Japanese boycott II seems to bo
in vigorous flourish especially al
Shanghai and Annoy At Shanghai the
other day a Chinese merchant who had
refused participation in the boycott
was paraded through densely crowded
streets carrying a poster typically lllumi-
mated and announcing TO all and sundry
that the bearer was an unpatriotiC
merchant who had continued to deal
with Dwarf Slaves" dc, the Japanese)
The spectators showed their opinion oi
the culprit by flowers of popular sa-
tirical humor (and Chinese popular
humor Is perhaps the best in the world
excepting that of the London cabby 3
type now becoming extinct) and by
splitting on the wretch (and the Chinese
are wonderfully adept in the art al
expectoratlonD At Annoy recently
Chinese shops found 10 be importing
japanese goods were bombed. the police
showing unWillingneSs To act
Replying to note from the Ma.
tionaliat government of China dated
July 10, which declared that the old
SlnO Japanese treaties of commerce
and navigation had lapsed and propos.
ing negotiations with a view tn a new
/ treaty the Toxic government under
! date 0f July 81 declared that the ole
| treaties had not lapaed and that, sh0uiC
The Nanking government take action
! based on the false idea that they haC
! lapsed, It, the Toxic government. would
however. reluctantly take suitable and
! necessary action, 'tot safeguarding III
rights and interests assured" by tht
| old treaties II was, however, prepared
/ to enter at once INTO negotiations fol
| revision OF the old treaties
The Japanese note Is the more stert
/ because Of the renewal Of negotiation.
j between Chang Hsueh Liang, supel
! Tuchtm Of Manchufia Tin succession
| 10 his late father Chang Tso Linz and
/ the Nank1ng authorities, with Il view Il
reunion Of the three Manchuriaf
! provinces with the l8 provinces of ole
| China under The Nationalist govern
! ment Indeed. one hears that lht
draft Of an agreement to this end hai
been practically completed, one report
even has It that agreement has beer
! signed.
! No doubt such an agreement Woult
! give Ia Manchuria The character Of 9
| county palatine political arrange
meni very frequent throughout Chimes,
| biEtptsJ tVaH anu that This tsyotiId pn