To attempt to follow the doings of the different provinces in detail would be equally unprofitable, wearisome and beyond the space at our command. Here and there one province follows the lead of another where there is affinity between their Tuchuns—Fukien for instance taking its cue from Chekiang. Generally they exhibit a common tendency to go their own way entirely irrespective of others. Conspicuous on-this line was Hunan, independentist by nature and now quite cut off from the rest of the country. On January 1 Hunan introduced a brand new constitution, all its own, asserting the supremacy of the civil power and universal suffrage for both sexes. On March 1 electioneering for the Provincial Assembly began: among the candidates.was alody. The elections were finished on June 7;. they were distinguished' by conspicuous fraud and corruption. The position of
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