Tungehou (esr Pern), gth September.
The public has been made acquainted with the external facts of the ejection from Japan of the Chinese s Wa Ching-hong and Sun Kruichii by the Japanese Government at the request of the Chinese Minister, Ts'ai Chun. The account given seems to place the fault of the trouble between the Minister and the scholars wholly with the latter, and it was not unnatural, without further Vidence, to conclude that the school "to, "ether with the students involved, for, their bearings, had been fous and truculent, and so dose spublie Tebuke that was given them. There now comes to the writer a pretty full state. ut of the affair from the other side, putt. 78 'a very different colour the picture,.and from a source which commands respe't- If worthy young re-} formers are being wronged by the representatives of heir Government. and harried with the mse of unworthy and occult means, the public should be made aware of the fact, and the sen that stands for righteousness should those deserving it.
Mr. Wu Chingsheng is a distinguished scholar of the Province of Kiangsu, who in The Chinese stud nsvlves wronzed. assenibled to of to hundred and sixty ment of the writer, unwisely to use! The present status of the patriot scholars of China now in Peking, longing ive along lines of real reform, is pitiable la the extreme. They know themes to be under the surveillance of an unsympathetic Government. They are like pieds with conscious power of flight chafing within the confined limits of their or better, like the Northern soldiers at Yorktown, stepping gingerly as they marched, fearing at any moment a hidden torpedo might send them suddenly into a nex order of being. If information is not misleading, Yuan Shih-kai has been asked once and again to intercede with the Government in behalf of the large lass of young scholars who are longing to serve their country in creating a better order of Government and Society, but evidently he does not feel the rock firm enough under his feet to take resolute steps in this direction.
Lhe object of this paper is to shed a cautions but true light upon a picture send cablegrams to the central which is already disfigured with dark the jines, and without proper publicity there iszrams is fear lest these lines be multiplied, and to state their) 2he picture be more seriously disfigured. fu ove Mas for the Chinese writer says pathetically of the end the turbulent cckelare hack PFexent out-of-joint conditions: "The fo sen the fiebulent scholars back altairs of my bumble nation are not yet pus auster at tha settled; the habit of combining in fac-ruption that the tions is not removed; men can unite to How: must conti but it is not} attack worthy scholars, can calumniate Bing. mist continue) them, obstruct them in their life-plans, burrow und ground, working s: riows east them out, secretly heap evil upon ele and pervasive lid het them. Can these things continue and the nation still survive?" Let us wait and work in patience and hope, knowing that It my information is correct the under-in due time a new China is to be born ground movement is in. the following out of the troubled womb of the old, and general direction. The Chinese students that these things are but the angu propo-ed to return to Chi as a protest pains that are certain at length to issue inst the wrong done to the two in better institutions and a better lif lars. They were perstiaded by for this people.
Japanese friends of the Minister not to carry out this plan, the interpretation hein: that the Minister feared the effect of such return upon the general judgment of the case, Mr. Wu Juin, the disti
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