Chang Tso-lin is another self-appointed instrument of destiny. No official whom the writer has met during the past few weeks doubts that he is going to try to invade Chibli again this year. His spiration will be partly revenge and partly ambition, but according to all reports he too is taking the fact that this is the last year of the cycle very seriously. in Mukden they feel too that they are on the ink of @ new era, that this is the year for the stopping of nonsense force, that it is the great op-Portunity; and if the great Manchurian war lord is not to be a Party to the big events, why who is? And if he misses this oppor-
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