"We appeal to you once more ty restrain your war chargers, sheathe your swords and let our' national estiny be determined by your representatives at a citizens' confer fence which may be held at any desirable city. Unifying China by force has been a failure. It is now me that public opinion should be consulted. Are you not prepared play the role of national heroes ard barter your swords for the pipe of Feace? Do you not want to trane= form the hissing public diszontert into one harmonious note of haps" jubilee? Will you help? Oy would yeu choose to remain local autocrat, tramping down your own bene= factors, the 400,000,000 people of China,' whom you are duty-bound to protect?) The people are bei: driven like beasts at bay. More nnd they will show they their oppressors, We request you therefore to heel the voice of the people and give then what they have long desired.
"To public organizations and lego! fraternities who share similar fate with us as fellow passengers sinking ship of state, we appeal for their moral support in championing the cause of pence."
Cantonese warlord should rotal control of Hunan Province. He, 0 the cther hand, was to withdraw kis troops from Kiangsi_ and hostilities were to cease for a cons¢crable period, perhaps a year or more. Only a small number of soldiers were to be on the boner and Marshal Sun could withdraw his main forces.
The official talk in Nanking has it that Marshal Sun is proposing to inarck.a drive from Hsuchowfu, with Tsinanfu as his objective, immediately. This would explain, he added, a message received in Shanshai recently, which purported that Sun and his troops were retreating down the river to Nanking.
Concerning his former employer, Marshal Wa Pei-fu, Prof. Hall said that his mental and physical condition was really deplorable, that he seemed a broken man who probably would never lead another army. He is weakened and dejected asd feels that he has been a wronged man, It' is understood, however, Nanking that Wa army will join Sun Chuai the proposed expedition agai Shantung. He is not, it is said, to appear on the field, but will assist in determining strategic movements from headquarters, Prof. Hall, besides being on the University of Washington' fault; has lectured throughout the United! States on subjects concerning the Pocife and Asia. As Upton Close, he will he remembered as a former Shanghai journalist and author of several books. He proposes to leave for Siam on an economic investiga tion mission this week,
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