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One of the recent discoveries of American journalists in China was the progressive and efficient government of Canton. British news agencies had always spoken of it as impractical, as standing in the way of a united China, even as bolshevistic. But in 1921 several liberal Americans visited Canton, with the result that the city was presently made known to Americans as the seat of a liberal government, reasonably free from corruption, and following American democratic policies. Canton became the one glimpse of hope in the gloomy corruption of Chinese politics. All of this is now changed. General Chen Chiung-Ming has driven out President Sun Yat-Sen, and with the veteran of the Revolution have gone the idealists in the Government. The reforms which had been bravely begun by the former Government are at a standstill.