Last year, during the war in Riangsu and dering the campaign at Shanhaikuan, it was impossible to accept anything as fact except What one actually witnessed, Thi yen? it is even worse. Even seeing!
not always believing when bad! faith is so much the rule that no individual commander in any force knows today on which side he is going to be fighting on the morrow The "alignments in China's wat wed to be fairly constant because until a few! years ago the tradition of loyalty to a senior commander War still binding upon subordinater. 'The big chiefs fought for themselves, the juniors dig chiefs and umply looked fo ward to being rewarded with a share of the spoils. This is. no Longer true. The juniors now frit! for their own aggrandizement, no: mally adhering to this or' that teat chiot to furnish an excuse for their activi ud then altering. ling out to the 8 policy dictates oF, the present war appeared ut it appeared to the unted that, with the exception of treme South, all the military. folk in China were' again arrayed in. two great factions and that this was to be a bigger war than ever! between the Chihli and Fengtien groups which might, if there were a decisive victory, reunite at least three-fourths of China under ona military master. If anyone cherished a hope of such an outcome the Talla of the feud an they now There has never appeared to be less must be vastly discouraging.
Promise of reunification by. force! than at this moment and there ws really no hope of it in the minds of most of the participants from
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