At all events the present armistice between Chang Tso-lin and Feng Vu-hsiang leaves Wu Pel-fa high and dry in Hankow with a few thousand retainers, Sun Chuan-Saag entry on Ins own in his Shantung campaign, Chang Tso-lin the greatest single loser, Yueh Wei-chun full of new-born assurance and ambition, and Feng Vu-hsiang in virtual control of Peking and. the railways without having fired a shot or expended a cash.
According to" Chinese friends of the Bolsheviki, the Christian Gen-means pleasing to his Soviet patrons. They feel that in supporting him both morally and materially" they, have wasted a lot of energy, thought, money and valuable mili. tary supplies. They have a hard fand fast agreement with him which he has violated by his peace tactics.
readiness to turn against the fond foreigners who have for years patronized him and built his reputation for him was a recommends His declaration of war upon far-away Great Britain very useful during the Soviet's student this year. But the strong tion which he has shown to fight, in any circumstances, has thoroughly disgusted his sian sponsors and rumour has that they have formally dropped him and are prepared to look upon the supplies which he has had from them as a total loss. They do not, Propose to foster qny agents who do not promote chaos in China. So long as conditions are rendered sutficiently bad to cripple and permanently hamper foreign trade, they do not care whether the disturbance ig created in the name of Commuism, nationalism or Christianity; but they must have trouble for their money and a champion who will not use his men and arms. impoverish China and terrorize the foreign communities is utterly worthless to them, Small Hope of Peace It would be very foolish for any-cone to try to predict what is going to come out of this situation; certainly nothing like peace. The! temporary agreement which Feng, has made with Chang Tso-lin will be regarded by the hatter as a loss of face to be revenged and by all those in the Chihli "alliance" as a cowardly betrayal which also will have to riged, so there can be no of lasting peace in Peking]
the Christian General actually relinquishes all hold upon the Government and takes himself off to Kansu to set up his kingdom there.
Meanwhile one gathers that the highly articulate members of the trying to make much capital out of the "peace" with the Legation folk and the special delegates to the Tar-
They sometimes said that we are an impotent body, representing nothing in China and unable to enforce our most trifling mandates outside the city walls, It is further said that because we have no control over the militarists we cannot put into effect the terms of any agreement which inged with the Powers, in the provinces. Observe how we have proved these allegations false. With the conference in full swing some of our naughty boys start a quarrel which threatens to disturb the serenity of our gathering. We coax them a little but they go on with their mischief, Then what happens? Our Marshal Tuan wearies of coaxing and, waxing wrath, seizes a mandate form and thunders forth
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