Peking, Dec. 8 report be right we may no longer have faith in the prote of men. General Chang Hsun has gone back upon his principles.
This warrior who escaped the rebels on the night of December 1, 1911, by going through or over the south wall of Nanking city, but who, in 1913, returned and captured the city from other rebels, afterwards looting it, has been regarded as the champion par excellent: of the Manchus.
We are told now, much to our disgust, that he has sent a telegram to the President expressing indignation at the recently discovered movement to restore the Manchus to power. He urges its immediate: suppression, and declares that anyone connected with it should be severely punished if captured. And worse than that he is alleged to have stated that " Republican government is the government best suited to the conditions of China, and it should never be changed."
Shades of the Old Buddha! "I have impressed upon my officers," the alleged telegram to the President says, "that China is better as a Republic," and what more emphatic recognition of the advantages of a Republic in China could anyone have than this testimony from the one and only last of the Monarchical Mohicans at presen blessed with some authority?
The day comes back to me when Chang Hsun, comfortably establish ed in a railway car at Yenchowft with supplies of champagne anc cigars and packs of cards for pok>r, denounced the Republicans with al'
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