Nanking, July 24.
It is now perfectly clear that Chang Tso-lin and Chang Hsun and possibly Tsao Kun are not supporting Wu Pei-fu. For Chang fse-lin has demanded that Chang Hsun be appointed Tuchun of Anhui and Inspector-General of the Yangtze. And that smacks neither of a battle against militarism nor of good government. It sounds more like the pigtail army, like a monarchist restoration.
Two things may be taken for granted. One, that Wu Pei-fu. was sincere in his desire to destroy the military clique in control of the government of China, And the other that the Anfu Club was a treacherous, malevolent, selfish organization.' With these two facts as a premise where are we after all these battles and manifestoes? We are exactly where we were before. Instead of Tuan Chi-jui and Little Hsu as war lords, we shall have Chang Tso-lin and Tsas Kun and Chang Benn. And this trio is more dangerous to the welfare of China than the others. They lack in administrative ability and they are atavisms of the pre-revolutionary Chinese. Unless these men are driven from Chinese public life as Tuan and Little Hsu have been the situation is infinitely worse than it was even in the balmy days of Nishihara and Tsao Ju-lin.
Disorepirep att Rovxp.
Chang Hsun is a discredited man. Fis attempted restoration of the "Manchus did not have even Manchu support. He has not a friend even among the most abject of the Chinese people. He fled from friends and enemies into the Dutch Legation and he was permitted to return to "Chinese territory" only after Hsu Hsih-chang felt that the public mind was more distracted by Shantung than by monarchical plots, That he was ever permitted to participate in Chinese affairs 1s only one of the many instances of senility on the part of the present President of China. And as soon as he got a chance he recommenced his efforts to bring back the Manchus. What for? What is his motive? What high patriotic aim guides him? How does he intend to benefit the country? These questions never enter his type of mind He is worried by only one consideration and that is to get Chang Hsun back to where he can control an army, feed men, clothe men, and squeeze what is left of the economic life-blood of the Chinese government.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.