Today, when this people is parcelled' out in a quantity of independent governments, can wi pect from their heads regenerate!
4 common effort for the! and the restor= of enter in. this immense: country? I do not hesitate to state that "uch 4 thing seems impossible me. The Tuchuns, whatever may be their names, have neither the disinterestedness, nor the ability, nor sufficient knowledge to operate such a straightening of matters. We could study them, one after' the other, und we could realize that all of them, without a single exception, during the past fifteen years, have worked for their personal glorification—the majority of them for an increase of their fortune—and have. shown but scanty care for the hapines of the democracy, when they posed us pions, Tt is quite trac, us the Rev. Wiezer so well said, that the love prestige may explain many things, but, if the ambition of eut~ ting some figure and the spirit of domination enter for a great deal in the views of the military chiefs all those things are subordinated to their thirst for the riches which are bound to became theirs from the fact of obtaining the governorship lof one or another province. For the Tuchuns, military glory is not an end, but a means, and the veritable end, to which they strive to arrive by the least avowable of all means, By what kind of process did the! Chinese revolution became antiforeign? Every one of you knows that, if the political parties engag ged in a fight for supremacy befand from current events. The next. day the "North-China Dolly New in a Iead'ng article, ridiculed optimistic new-comers and nai Jeranks who continued to repeat in the summer the catchwords of the spring revolution, after the open. season for such had been closed. In. the summer you must count not only. the small chickens but the number of divisions required to occupy tween 1911 and 1920 were: wanting to make reforms, they did not seek to realise them by exciting the pose 8 of the people against foreign+ ers.
Sun Yat-sen himself, who Iliad, at that time a quarrel to pick with the Tuchuns of Yunnan and Kuangsi, had not yet entered into the game with the Bolshevist agents, As early as 1921, in the south of China, a change in the nature of relations between the [Chinese and foreigners can be note Labour Unions, or syndicate registered themselves and deposited their regulations. Soon, there Was not a single workman left; ally voluntary or under the threats of the heads of those unions, signed the roll. The most important and the most numerous one was the Union of the Sailors and Mariners. The watch-word was given in Cane ton; Sun Yat-sen was at that tung training' the elements which he 30 feMicaciously used either in 1922, during the 61 days strike of the Hongkong seamen, or in 1925, ime mediately after the Shameen me Without any doubt, the revolu tionary movement was the work of Bolshevist Russi using Sun Yate ren as an executive agent, Docu ments published in 1923 offer such objective evidence that no denial is, possible.—Thage documents show, all the transactions between Mos cow and Sun Yatsen, Therefore we can say that the Chinese ree elution became anti-foreign in the measure of the servility of the Can+ tonese government. to the Soviets, 1 shall make th the Christian General, I hsiang. He has only been an agent fof the anti-foreign agitation since the day he received from Soviet Russia advice, money and ammuni" tion, These are facts which have bee came historical: the Chinese rex volution began. by' a very normal development on the lines of natural reforms, to be made without touch= ting the' acquired rights of foreign+ Jers in China, This revolution, ale though very' sanguinary in many intonees, had not inscribed in. its programme the hatred of foreign" fers. Ofcourse. grave disorders haps pened and, by repercussion, foreign ers-also hud to suffer but it has to be. noted thatthe foreigners were not "molested been use "of being. foreigners.
The Soviet's Creation 'The Bolshevist activity in. Ching the "Chinese revolution' with ita xenophobe character, is. creation Soviet. Russia, and, if. Teasaia nce decided to ret upon the Britiatt Influence in Chinw and to ruin ity find to use Chinese to. do 80, the heat vay to attain cheir aim wa Jas a matter of fuct, to make use of evolutionary Chind. On that field directly hit all the lored by Russia as hor the United States, and France, Joffe, Karake han, Borodin, every one and all worked in that direction. Less that ever, no doubt is pos ible after the evidence of the documents seized i the Soviet Embassy in Peking. 1 Therefore, we are in presence of chines rev tation bing eet Ander n Nationalist mask in on alto and destroy the sight conceded by tveation to. foreleyt Powers, and that change of mo ince 1021 isa Russian creation, Without any doubt, Chinese, if they: hund Been Heft to themselves, very, probably" would have continued. ta fight a fvatricidal war from 192% Hull the present day, as they did from 1911 till 1922, and without making a single step towards thd [question of necessary reforms, bury at least, they would have had thd advantage of avoiding those acts savage aggression against foreign ers. They would not be in their present condition of having to carry the burden of the justified claims of the Powers. The intervention off Russians into Chinese affairs had only unhappy effects for the young, Republic, because. after all, it iq China who will be held. responsible for all the errors committed unday the inspiration of bad advisers.
Action by the Powers Common action by the Powent was needed to solve the Chinese pros!
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