For the third time he just (Tune 1920) come to the position of the chief caccutive officer of the province. No one, least of all himself, thinks the previous periods of rule have been blameless. But. apart from himself, no one puts than this on Mr, Tan's he is too kind-hearted te deal with rascals as they need te be dealt with.
Hunan is no es ellens powers of worked such harm oung republic. Perhaps the frightfully severe lesson which the Humanese have experienced—from the dreadful misrule of Chang may effect what would ter years of misery and_ suffering had "unity prevailed when last the Southerners were in power Each time there has been a flight of a governor (by the way, Mr, T'an has never fled) the cause of the flight has been division amongst the northern or southern supporters of the governor of the time being. In Hunan, des Deux Republiques as in China, the parable of the "divided melon" is. worth enshrining in press and in literature. But the one truth overlooked in the usual references to the divided melon is that the melon has always parted by division within, never by being cut from without.
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