No Chinese in an official post, except fanatics like Wu Pei-fu, or ing, who hope to Jconquer and rule China for themselves, desires reunification under deny sort of an authority that would restore discipline, limit individual effort in the looting of the people and earn genuine "rights" for China in the sight of the world. Chaos pays the official classes in China as no Imperial regime has ever paid them and, since any coolie, by joining the army, may now rise abruptly to be a super-Tuchun if he is ruthless enough, a vast horde of potential disturbers of the pence are well pleased that China should be hopelessly chaotic and would bitterly resent the restoration of order. To ensure that there will never be such restoration they have only to unite in guaranteeing that China remain in native hands, that no allowed to interfere and complete demoralization and 'h disciplinary checks as the world still holds upon China be thrown off so that the country may be completely at the mercy of her native exploiters. coincide so exactly with thos: These ambitions the Soviet in the East and receiv such support from the Soviet' deluded friends in the West that they are rapidly being realized under Bolshevik encouragement.
The Powers! Ineptitude Tt is remarkable, disconcerting yet satisfying to observe how fizzling out of the present war in China, through a grand display of native bad faith and ineptitude coincides with the show of fatuous weakness which the representatives of the Powers are making at the Tariff Conference. While China' self-appointed rulers are demonstrating on the one hand that the evolution of am authority enjoying anything like respect and exercising anything ike discipline utterly impossible, the Occident is demonstrating to China and the rest of the world that the state of things in the East is wholly mig-understood in the Wert, that sloppy' sentimentality is all that is likely to be offered to a country that is really to signed to the cruel and childish administration of her own faithless tyrants, The hopeful feature of incidence is that conditions in must get conspicuously and ly worse, thereby hastening the inevitable renetion,
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