To recent developments in the political situation, the Chinese Press is paying alert attention. As the present conflict has resulted, we may say, definitely in the downfall of Marshal Tuan Chi-jui and his satellites, much space has been devoted to tracing the contributory causes and factors, while the leaders on the victorious side are earnestly exhorted to beware of treading the same path and committing the same blunders or offences against democratic principles.
The sudden collapse of the founder and preserver of the Republic, og Marshal Tuan likes himself to be called, may attributed mainly to his implicit faith in the efficacy of militarism and his childish confidence in the loyalty of his officers and followers, while his callous indifference to the people's wishes and his utter imperviousness to public criticism have gradually—but steadily added to his unpopularity until to-day what affection the people might once have felt towards him is said to have been almost wholly alienated. Hence, the dramatic rapidity and apparent ease with which Tuan's power was shattered should cause us no wonder. Several morals may be deduced front the success and failure of a great man's career or a party's poli Apvice To THE SOLDIERS.
The soldiers in the Chibli and Fengtien camps and the Anti-Anfuites scattered in the provinces are given much sound advice as regards their future behaviour, and also some plain hints as to what is expected of them as deliverers of the people and the country from the clutches of their tyrants and_ traitors. The disclosure of its attitude by the Navy in both Canton and Shanghai, made as it was after the Anfu Army had been defeated and routed, is severely rebuked. The alleged effort to reinstate the redoubtable—monarchist, Prince Chang Hsun, in a high position on the Yangtze, is strongly condemn-
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