Developments

P: The Conservative Nationalist Army of General Chiang Kai-shek failed to capture Hankow, the Communist Nationalist stronghold last week, when the Communists were able to rally re-enforcements.

P: Dr. C. C. Wu, Foreign Minister of the Nanking Conservative Nationalist Government, said, last week: "There is no possibility, as some foreigners think, of a reunion between our Government and that at Hankow, but those Hankow members of the Kuomintang [Nationalist Party] who disavow communism will undoubtedly be taken back into the party and permitted to serve in the work we have before us."

Dr. Wu said of the slowly progressing Conservative drive northward to capture Peking from the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin:

"It is not with us a case of 'Peking or bust.' . . .

"We have set ourselves to the task of terminating the unequal treaties, ridding our land of foreign troops and our waters of foreign gunboats, recovering the concessions held by foreign powers and in every way making our position equal to that of other nations

"Equality for China is one of the basic principles which Dr. Sun Yatsen left to our party as a heritage and a responsibility, and we shall endeavor to achieve it by every legitimate means as quickly as possible. . . ."

P: The War Lord of Mongolia (formerly of North China) Feng Yu-hsiang, advanced with unannounced purpose so far south last week, that his large, Russian-equipped army claimed to have captured with ease Chengchow, an important strategic city only 400 miles southwest of Peking on the Peking-Hankow railway. If this unconfirmed report was exact, General Feng may shortly seize again the dominance in Chinese affairs which he lost when driven from Peking into Mongolia (TIME, April 12, 1926) by Chang Tso-lin.