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would be greatly in favour of the South.

Now, General Tan Yen-kai, who belongs to

nether the Nanchang nor the Hankow clique, has been

working hard to effect a rapprochement between the two, his suggestion being that the capital should

neither be in Hankow nor in Nanching, but in Nanking.

To this latter place the two contending parties should go; and thus the divergent views now Beld by the two cliques might be so modified as to enable a compromise

to be reached. In my view a rapprochement is possible.