Feng Looks On It is now perfectly clear how the war in the North started—The Cheistian General" has as] usual got someone to fight his battles for him. He has} engineered matters on the famous] "heads I win, tails you lose" basis, involving unhappy Shansi in a feud with the big Fengtien military majchine—six inch howitzers, "aeroplanes, tanks, and what not—with /no risk or expense to himself, This, Marshal Feng would expl Jdone out of his devotion to peace Jand horror of internecine strife Like his Communist friends he war. He thinks that it is both unscientific and unholy, Our readers will remember how, when Kuo Sang. methods in commerce and diplomacy over the face of the world. they seem incapable of reading from records available to all that Great Britain and several other ling had been persuaded through Bolshevist channels to declare war} on Mukden and lost, Marshal Feng] raised his pious palms to the welkin and said that China was in much too unhealthy condition for a good Protestant Christian product, so re-ired to the Mongol border at his new base of Pingtichuan, and turn-fed his face to the great and clean Jopen spaces while his wretched sub-Jordinates and his unhappy at devoted themselves to the busi of stopping the most orderly and deadly machine gun fire, just outside Tientsin, that had ever been developed in this country. We remember seeing a telegram in rather an unpleasant tone from Lu Chung-Jin to the great peace lover, in which it was rashly asserted that 40,000 of the peace loving army had stopped this fire with their persons and would be daly buried as soon as the' [ground had sufficiently thawed, We Know beyond cavil that 4,000 for had]
Powers have always been the most willing and lenient parties to measures designed to mitigate the atonement that would ordinarily be exacted from an obstreperous and faithless officialdom, land have never lost sight of the fact that the Chinese people were guiltless of partnership in the exasperating doings of their rulers, just as they are now] guiltless of any real sympathy with the anti-foreign operations} lof the "Nationalist" leaders.
China, instead of being an abused victim of alien aggression and exploitation, has enjoyed for [some reason more indulgent consideration abroad in her seasons lof gross misbehaviour such as that from which we hope we are lemorging, than any other nation.
That, for reasons which we leave to psychologists to explain, is why people like F.D.Z., the wuther of the Three Principles, land many of our young modern intellectuals are so unbelievably unreasonable and so determined to repudiate all of this country's natural obligations to mankind. China has never been made to pay her way. There is a cynical old proverb also, to the effect that the injurer never-forgives, Iwhich helps to explain the state] of mind in which "F.D.Z." finds himself, Precious medical staff having fled with him, were taken in hand bj the Peking foreign population Jemergency quarters and dissected into sad lumps of humanity as they Jcrawled in, either frozen or gangrene ous, after four or five days' drag] river a landscape that was desolate} under zero weather, to look for the ion of the marvellously efficient ical corps that the great one had advertised abroad. Incidentally the! foreigner paid for such attention as could be given and naturally never got it back. In any event Shansi, it would seem, is about to be the Jerucified, forfeit to Feng's latest Muscovite inspiration. Russian money he moved so many of Yen Hsi-shan's subordinates. to war against Peking that the unhappy Governor of what used to be the Model Province had to join the movement to control it. it means mil-jong in money and something that twe have no measure for in human suffering. 5
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