We believe that it has now been definitely established that General Villa, the much admired Mexican freebooter, has surrendered himself. He said he was tired of fighting, and when he gave himself up—to 'e.treated as an honoured guest, of course—he received a tremendous ovation. But he was reported to have surrendered on a previous occasion, and it turned out that ie had done nothing of the kind, while what he was actually doing was the kind of thing to give him a special place in history. First of afl, when he told the new Government that he was tired of his bad old life and desired to be admitted into the fold, he sent a letter asking for a few school books, pencils, pens and other paraphernalia of the schoolroom, and these, accompanied by 4 small sum of $500,000 in cash, were to be used by him in setting up a university. Here he and his followers were to ensconce themselves and make a study of the arts of peace. Of a truth, a great idea, one which could be recommended to a few people in China. Instead of Chang Chin-yao, the ex-Tuchun of Hunan, skulking in a Concession in Hankow, why could he not be made to establish a college of peace with some of his ill-gotten gains and there teach his fellows how to forge ploughshares from swords? When the time came for him to fight he showed how little he knew of war, so perhaps he would be an admirable man to hold classes on peace. But in China, it would seem, there are fields even more profitable than brigandage open for the ex-bandit.
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