The Archive · 1924

Wasteful and Useless

there is a boundary dispute between Kiangsu and Chekiang, today, it is necessary for the military: men of these provinces to fight it four, to see whether the boundary can be readjusted. If Marshal Ci wins, Marshal Lu will begin to pli to get back at him. If Marshal wins, the question is as open as it] was' before the war. What a wasteful, useless system.—Sir Robert Hotung's Round Table Conference. would have settled such a boundary dispute. My suggestion hope would create a permanent method for such settlements, method based upon history, tradi tion, the psychology of the Chinese people, and common sense,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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