The position in North China has suddenly become extraordinarily interesting and pregnant of great possibilities. Prophecy is always dangerous. Yet it docs appear as if a clear issue were at last teache on the one hand Chang so-lin, Tsao Kun and the Chili clique endeavouring to patch up one of the old-time bargain-making Cabinets which would not, to any pectation be one whit better than Antu; on the other Wu Pei-fu stoutly declaring that the politicians shall not rob China of the fruits of his—and nobody clse's—destruction of Anfu, and that there must be a popular Assembly representative of all classes in the country to settle once for all the future governance of China, The issue then is all or nothing. From which point of view it is disheartening to read that the Shanghai Streets Union, which—includes many old M.P."s, have telegraphed to Wu Pei-fu' denouncing—his scheme as illegal. Can they not show a little patriotism! "It is easy to sce the motive. The old M.P.'s, for whom China has already paid heavily, are afraid of losing their jobs—at which not one} of them has ever done an honest day's work. Will the Street Unions allow themselves to be dictated to by these worthless gentry? 1f Wu Pei-fu really can break the power and defeat the intrigues of the militarists of all factions, is he not one to whom all men should rally, for the wiping clean of the slate and a fresh start?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.