To the Editor of the "Nonru-Emma Dain News.", Sim—I am trying hard to fathom the method by which you arrive your estimates of Chinese politico military leaders, and especially of the Christian general, Feng Yuhsiang, but to date I have not succeeded.
[the blackmailing type of tuchun, who feels that his game is up if Feng rises to power, make fresh war on him? Ts not the roand-table conference to which Feng hi sewed a general invitation as his firet and. chief aim, the very measure. which has been repeatedly urged by all true-hearted Chinese, from Sir Robert Hotung onwards? who The point which, ostensibly, you anxious to drive home against Feng is that he proved a Ytrajtor" to his superior officer in the war against Chang Tso-lin. But this won't hold water for a when all the circumstances are weighed. What are the facts that Jed up to that action?
Ever since the Revolution the most of China has been treated to 2 squalid game of military gener post, under which, in most provinjces,'a tuchunship' would be seized cly the nearest and most powerful general, not for the public weal, but' for the opportunity which it ave to blackmail the province under the pretence and cover of administering it, and the self-[pointed incumbent would hold his office until another with a bigger military following came and thrust him out, not for any public reason, but solely in order to seize the fof the people, stand out of it or wreck i?
You? charge of treachery could ibe levelled with equal - just against every champion of ana tion's main interest who ever Inunched a civil war or a beneficent revolution anywhere in history. Why spill tears over Wa Peisfu? Quite apart from this business in the north, is he not at this moment urging. forward. half-dozen use-em wars in other parts of this country, in the futile pursuit of a parase stuffed with wind, which has already' produced 13. years of shameless and stupid civil war? Has he ever done anything else to corn the gratitude of his country.
For Jong you dealt tenderly with that other formula-ridden and epopressed demagogue who has been ixed_these Tart few years.
Hf China had bit a score of prominent rulers with Peng's integrity jof character, her problems would ibe solved, and Feng's hardest task jis to find' them, for one man alone, [however able and incorrupt, would. be helpless. At present' he will have to work with unpromising material. His roundable conte ence, even if he is successful in bringing it together, will inevitably include some men who do not share Jhis ideals, and who will come only because they are bound to. take into account his growing influence and power. But his invitation to it shows that, in political affairs, he is jo man of his hands, and when the [promise which he shows as an able adminisator is joined to the sterling Christian character of himself and his officers and men,*his pre-/sent effort is seen in its true light Jas the most hopeful augury which has appa@tred in his country. since ithe birth of the Revolution. You say in your leader of the 8th instant, "Force will never avail to mend or end this wretched confusion. Only will that be done when a few men, whatever their (party. are great enough to say, We will fight no more... but we will meet each other frankly and try to see' whether a new start not be made... 4°" That is exactly the proposal which Feng now made. Yet the rest of your leader is concerned only with abuse of the prime mover.
It is poor employment for British pens (not to say bad policy) to in diogulve wont to ace." Having this fealty is noted, in heard of the affair, and dress-ithe poor.
Honey also, for which same is'@ Me crop province ad ita whale economy of e excused the rivers of blood which {OM leader in, sight who posaeste" opportunity of holding the|Ttining Canton. And if he hind to} orimcrim Broadcast. vitriolic ertiism of the wh satiated himiolt as to the ringlead- The dolar exchanges here for 2,420 ite, trade and social comfort to the {owed from his doctrinaire theories ers he took the priest and several leash at present, but the cash price ransom of his own soulless black-merely beans he aay anal be: bose ionrantes ch, 2 others into custody, The crowds of of commodities advances faster than surely Feng should not be con<|sirenker 1) ae ater Salas. course soon scattered, He shut the the dollar, and wages advance more dened ins 20 far succesafal at.) 2¥Rest, an allisace between Wu priest in an open space in the temple slowly than either oot and rape in' their tempt to prevent further bloodshed merely bezaure he is @ Christian, not Ludendorff and Zinoviell? The where the crowds could see him in the pull on both sides; less value in homes. In these wars, no matter But let us carry this a little fur-jesuit might be ax good. You say disgrace. He confiscated the money their cash wages and more to pay who won, the people always lost, for what they buy. ther. Every thinkling person will in one sentence that forse is no re-and materials that have been amass~ and paid heavy indemnities in life, agree that what China needs in her medy. Yet the evident objective of ed for building a temple, and said 'A large sowing of poppy is be-honour and treasure. Tuchun thing else is the proposed alliance would be that it should be used for a public building made, as we are credibly inies Became, almost universally j!eaders more than 3 ing" in. the city.
He handed the formed, though those of whom I imple for the supreme character, and the kind of charaethey could: then crush Fong:
small boy over to his father, and inquire do not usually admit having right to rob the citizenry of this be-needed Ties in the combination of forces. And even selflessness and finaasupposing they could succeed, after made all the leaders promise' that sown themselves, The _hope they would no more do these things. that in the present disordered 'To come to the oper event of ly. The Chinese are not fresh war, in eliminating' Feng, lacking in ability. What they con-ug would it be before the Then as a final touch he went state of the country the crop will the present trouble, Chi prowpicuowsly lack are those two quali-val antagonists were ut each through the ceremony of cutting off not be interfered with. vince had been for m the tdol's head as a criminal, One hears of a great deal of kid-lof the few provinces in China en- tes 50et named for want of which ray nes death, and further riy years one other's throats again, with China
This affair is of Interest to the napping and holding for ransom en eying aE ton Lao rune, pte duced in this country is erash- o@ tana copy' in China. 'A'fow ears ago week 10 present day socie. the country around us. ago two men entered a farm Hank was admited on all hands to Their gent national failing, Just one Lu er gr failing, ever from -any real eovetousnens, which is at the bot-As for his treatment of the ex-no official would have interfered house about three li from this town, ibo an able and public-spirited ruler. tom of all these robber wars and Emperor, I make three points: (a) with a local superstition in. this after the family had retired, and An unprovoked attack was opened fon him for no other reason than bedlam polities, is lying like a can-'A statement of intention is not way: public opinion was of suff. picked the only child of, the family eer in every problem facing the necessarily 4 promise or contract, that a neighbouring tuchun wanted cient importance for him oxen to out of its bed, and walked off with country. Is there any useful idea! of it fs not given that definite form. defer to religious opinion rather It. "They ace' now negotiating for to seize the province in order to or constructive political objective in All inosining governments claim a turn it over-to one of his own mili-than oppose. These stories that ar $2,000 ransom. One would think view in these devilish wars against right to redlivect policy; (b) tary proteges. In order that this told of Si Men-pao and other it would require heartless robbers. which Feng has raised his protes There is nothing to show that the sordid objective might be secured, lightened rulers do not touch the They are not far away. They are Not a Dit of it, High-sounding ex-Emperor will not get as much Tocal men and are mere amateur large areas of that peaceful pro-ideals are pot up" merel fon the reduced figures from an in= vinge were ruthlessly razed in a rulers now by rea neral truth of this assertion. The bandits, but with success they will wicked war, tens of thousands of corrupt dictator as he was able to tary clement are more independent increase in boldness. The poor peo-[gut on" higher promises from some families were beggared on the apof the people. We, probably, would plo have neither protection nor Fed-think that educational effort is the rex method of dealing with such] As a result of further inquiries I/eluding many Prethins's "ekcppr teoment beggared on the
of culture and educa.|funreme right tae [force the LITY 10 power and the|the ox-Emperor thank God that he aP-they have been and will be used to previous governments; Ce) Let
Dest, troubles, although an occasional team that the father of the child tion, to rob: and so the)aas not the tion, were raped by an abandoned were raped ud eden: Hioqd-gullly ame goes oh, and the, whose last dynastic representative Emperor of Turkey,
sharp reminder.of this kind may Wang Chang-yuen's and the Chang ig now rotting in the garret of has got together all the money he soldiery, and one of China's few have a good effect by presenting the Ching-heal's pile up their millions }Shylock in Budapesth with his 16 can without selling his land and it good governors became a fugitive. and retire into sleck and coinfer' public with what we may call the hapless wives. I refrain from men~ amounts to about $200, The kid-General Feng saw his chief, Wu ble luxury, while their countrymen tioning a number of other imperial spectacle of superstition in disgrace, nappers have reduced their demand Pei-fu, aiding the aggressor with his writhe in despair as they find them-unfortunates in European history to $1,800, and threaten to burn the inned forces, and when Chang Tso-selves handed over endlessly to the which go to show that "Christian"? Iw order to meet with the desire whole chuang, or farm village, i lin attempted to help the wronged next military scoundrel. And de-Europe is not in a position to rend expressed by several persons, to have the money jx not forthcoming, and province by a diversionary war in liverance waits: for what? For any homilies to China. fan exact model of Breton costumes many of the inhabitants are moving the north, Feng was ordered to rulers who can show that they pos-I salute the Christian general, with a view of copying them for away for fear of becoming involve hhetp on the wrong side of the busi-sess just that character and public the Cromwell of China, and agree wear at the French Toys Fair to be ed. There are a captain and soldiers ness. Of course, we all know that Japirit which will scorn to do these with Sir John Jordan that he is a held at the Verdun Garden on here, but the parents fear that if many factors would have to be things, arid which will reck always highly creditable specimen of Old December 4, 5, 6, and 7, the Com 1- these move in the matter their child weighed in the devision that any and only the weal of the governed.
Tovtament Christian, and I fervent mittee of the Fair is glad to advise. may be killed by his captors. The public-spirited general might have Now "there is only one way ly pray that when time has swept the public that, the Alliance Pranvictims of this outrage are Catholic to come to, who found himself in which that type of man can be eeraise is kindly exposing" in its converts, stich a position.
But the only Cured. It is the way which has wey gri tee reay the Tying telegrams and pro-Library (French Municipal School), Moral offence that can be charged erigpod General "Feng, as his Mueatds with which his own, coun nice wie own eons pictures for perusal. The library is! to the Christian general is that helqnole career shows. It fe just mo-|frme he may yet prove to be, Ni: Spened to the public every day from A Hongkong notification, states acted on the" supreme rule of else than submission der Godt the saviour of his country, 10 to 12 am, tand from 3 tov pm,|that, at the expiration of three principle, rather than on the thumb Jesus Christ and_ obedience. 10. His We", o°ta, t ey cone OF his country, Sinday afternoon and Monday months, The. China Pacific Steam- rule. of" pany allegiance.
You! Gospel, Oliver "Cromwell believed he has China's main interest at mornings excepted. The private|ship Company, Ld. will, unless) speak glibly of his "treachery."|jt, and Oliver Cromwell is black-entrance of the library is in Rue jeause is shown to the contrary, be But to whom or what was his first guarded to this day by people who en, Sir, Maree! Tillot. struck off the register. loyalty due? Was it due to a deepjbeliove in vending history with one fairplay, jaupped and politically incompetent fee blindfolded. "And all Christian [chief who could not even suppress men whose calling places them and yield to bim at least the same the Honanese bandits before they the political melee will have to con-sympathetic restraint in comment had wrecked half the province; who tend with misrepresentation and himself admitted, and whose record you have given in times past to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.