Here in England you are asked to believe that the three parties of which the Advisory Council is com-
Nothing could be misleading. These parties in their programmes, as political parties do in all countries, but all three are equally Republican. The most powerful party, the Tung Meng-hui, advocate a party Cabinet 85 opposed to a coalition Govern: ment, Its platform is the reform of the Administration and develop: ment of local government, the equality of the sexes, the spread of education, the development of colonization, and the enforcement of conscription. It comprises some of the most brilliant men in China, such men as Wang Chung-hui and Tsai Yuan-pei, pure-minded pat riots, whose ambition it is to see China raised in the family of nations. To suggest that this party cing to lead ite forces into civil war and bring about the disruption of the State is mischievous nonsense. You are asked to believe that it is the southern party, and that in what the sensational papers are describing as the impending civil war" they will organize the southern forces to attack the northern. But members of this party are numerous in Peking; they are employed by and are trusted by the President himself, who has, I am confident, no warmer friend, though he differs from him on questions of policy, than Mr. Tang Shao-yi, the first Prime Minister of the Republic and the most important member of the party. And this leads me to remind you of the attacks made upon the Prime Minister on the occasion of his leaving Peking on June 15. Only yesterday Iread in English newspapers that Mr. Tang Shao-yi hac " absconded" from Peking. His unexpected journey to Tientsin is habitually described as a flight to the refuge of, the foreign concession in Tien-
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