Chang Tso-lin's opponents are a heterogeneous group. They are by no means united,—well-armed or adequately ' Gnanced. Their military ealeulations are based upon the further insensibility of Chang _Tso-lin, the unpopularity of the Fengtien commanders every district where they are stationed, the disastrous; pol of the present Peking Government and the rising popularity of Wu Pei-fu, whose claim fo popular approval rests on his actual poverty, his uncompromising attitude toward the present Govern ment, and the feeling that he wa not given a fair chance during the last. war.
The Chinese public has no seroot confidence in Wu Pei-fu's political ideas nor in his ability administrator. Generally speaking there is a greater regard for both Chang Tso-lin and Feng Vu-hsiang from this standpoint, But mere administrative ability counts for simest nothing in the public esti-motion as compared with those moral qualities which the Chinese classics attribute to really great commanders. Wu Pei-fu possesses those qualities. He is like a picture out of a classic, and it is for that Yeason that so many of his shortcomings are forgiven, while really micro competent men are unable to fasten their hooks to public po-
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