Dr. Chao, Dean of Religion at the University of Yenching, Peiping, and President of the World Council of Churches, has hailed the Communist success in China . . . "China is going over to Communism," he says. "While the Kuomintang have blindly disregarded the lessons of history, the Communists have been willing to learn, thus winning the people and easily leading them to victory over feudalism ... No human power can arrest the motion of the mass strongly forged into solidarity for the revolution."

Meanwhile, on April 1, the right-wing Kuomintang Government gave a parting lash to the people of Nanking by firing on a student demonstration for peace. In case you share Mr. Fraser's fear of "Chinese bandits," and are willing to accept the present trend of events in China as an excuse for introducing military conscription in New Zealand, lend your ear a moment to a few extracts from the Hongkong weekly, "China Digest" for 19 April, 1949, received by the Stud Ass last week.

In a long and enthusiastic article. Dr. T. C. Chao describes the occupation of Peiping by the Peoples Liberation Armies, so assiduously identified in our press with their leaders, the Chinese Communist Party.