In the event of the President being able to carry out his present plans, what will be the attitude of the Powers? Is it possible that they will continue to recognize the tarists? There is nothing to te ined by replacing a man like Little Hsu with a man of the type of Chang Tso-lin. In fact there are those of us that would prefer Little Hsu to any of the old bandit generals. Whatever may be said against Tuan Chi-jui and Hsu Sho-cheng, they are at lerist men of action, They have failed miserably in their_attempt to coerce the people of China into accepting a pro-Japanese government. They have ted many crimes against the It is certain that the people are opposed te their remaining in power, but, after all, what has Hsu Shih-chang done for China? Tu looking over the names of the conspirators now in league with the President to secure the downfall 2f Tuan Chi-jui we cannot find one that has rendered any service to China.
We will soon witness scramble for power among the militarists un. less the President loses his nerve—a thing quite possible. There will be hundreds and thousands of telegrams aid letters calling unau the people to assist, in ridding China of the arch-criminal. Little Hsu. 1 mar be that he will be spared decapitation, and that he will be sent into Sinkiang as en exile. or more likely as Tuchun. There is nothing to be gained out of a change in the Tuchuns. The Tuchuns must go—one and all. President Hsu has shown himself no better than Tuan Chi-jui, in fact he has proved himself to be a much weaker man in every way. The President at the head of a lot of Tuchuns can do no more good for China than did Tuan Chi-jui at the head of his favourite Tuchuns.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.