Peking, Nov. 1.
This is Guy Fawkes month, It is, too, the anniversary of the overthrow of the Kuomintang as a coterie of rebels, and therefore, it is fitting that with the break of November the Presidential pen should be wielded in condemnation of traitors and all their multifarious works. The Government is convinced, moreover, that the rebel faction headed by the irrepressible Dr. Sun Yat-sen is busy endeavouring to sow the seeds of trouble throughout the country. Telegrams have come to Peking from widely different quarters of late announcing the activities of rebel agente, and the consequent flurry in the Presidential dovecote has developed in the issue of urgent instructions to various provincial Governors and officials ruthlessly to stamp out the slightest indications of political incendiarism. In the region where the notorious White Wolf was captured there is to be a drag-net treatment of the country to gather in his followers, and in Shanghai and other treaty ports the closest he Watch is to be instituted to discover and arrest and execute those who would by word or deed foment another rebellion.
To-day the President issues a Mandate once again expressing what he thinks of the ex-President of the Republic, Sun Yat-sen, and his bald declaration that Sun Yat-sen had nothing to do with the Revolution which overturned the Manchus, and brought into being the Chinese Republic which enabled Yuan Shih-kai to climb to the top of the ladder of fame and power, will shock those in the outer world who lavished such abundant and fulsome praise upon Sun Yat-sen, and went to bed o' nights content in the belief that Washington, Cincinatus and other such had reappeared in the world in the guise of a Chinese. The Presidential pronouncement will likewise cause most break of the trouble at Wuchang in 1911," he says, " the different provinces really did the actual work of Revolution, and Sun Yat-sen did nothing. At that time he was ins foreign country, and he accidentally heard of the Revolution, He then returned to China and circulate ed the rumour that he had brought with him a large number of battleships, arms and ammunition, and his party men nominated him os President. A provisional government was established at Nanking, and turned out to be a pitiful fail ure. All righteous principles were destroyed. Sun Yat-sen neither has ability to administer the country nor has he the power to govern troops. He took republicanism as a pretext, and in the name of equality de stroyed all Iaws and acted contrary to correct principles. His actions were imitated by his followers, and during the time of the Nanking Government there was great danger
be destroyed by his party, has endured for 2,000 years, woul that the civilization of China,
Chinese be brought down to the low state of robbers and beasts.
"Sun Yat-sen finally realized that he was not popular with the people and that his government would soon fall to pieces; he, therefore, resign~ ed in order to cover his incapacity. I, the President, in order to save the country, took up the heavy reis fortunate that since the establishment of the permanent government the rebels have been argoly suppressed and peace has been restored to the people. If we go on improving the administration, China will be in a state of prosperity, but since the beginning of the European war, which has shocked the whole world. China, being a new country, has also been affected, but we should do all we can to preserve our position Sun Yat-sen is also a Chinese, and it is very bad of him to persist in his selfish schemes to ruin the country merely to realize his selfish wishes. He is a man devoid of all conscience, and his schemes are like those of a devil. He has long been
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