The Kuomintang has been in session at Nanking and has
issued a new manifesto. This is a great improve- ment upon former pronouncements in that the anti- foreign tone is far milder. It is fairly plain that there are some sensible persons there now who would like to see an improvement in the existing relations. What power they have we cannot say. The manifesto also deals seriously with the internal demoralization of the country. Well it may, for some of the accounts are terrible. For instance, the • Shanghai correspondent 'of the Times gives a lamentable account of the " Red Terror " as practised in the country between Hong-kong and Swatow. There, among perhaps worse things, the young people have decided to designate for extermination - as a useless burden the " old brains," i.e., people over forty. Some of us will realize that we owe gratitude 'to the rising generation of Great Britain for its comparative moderation towards us. '
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