It is to be feared that this col-curing of the situation is the one which will most strongly impress the Legations and the other dele gates and which will therefore. be! Purveyed to our peoples in the homelands. We shall hear' China, faced with a critical situation pulled herself together, acknow. Jedged Peking's authority and abruptly restored order, thereby edifying the world's plenipotent jes with a remarkable display of her latent powers. The real meaning of the present truce, which might easily be shattered before this letter is reproduced, will get no publicity in China and. little abroad, "It means that the Chinese national army is completely and hopelessly decentralized, because the old tradition of loyalty la absolutely "dead and because no loss of face is now involved in (a frank avowal" of bad faith) and treachery. It" means, therefore, that the reunification of! China by force is. as absurdly possible under native auspices her reunification by reason, logic, treaty or any other medium thet has can conquer China because no one can trust a subordinate beyond rife ahet. is only in the expression of a frenzied fear that some alien Power jg about to take pity on China's miserable people and intervene to estore order, give the people peace and put an efficient check upon a)pacious and greedy officialdom, that' it will henceforth be possible to ruling elements in anti-foreign demonstrations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.