The Archive · 1926

We Told You

We know beyond quibble that the Chief Executive, Tuan Chijui, has ttle more liberty of action in this than Tsao Kun, that Fong is absolute master of every detail of official life in the capital, suppresses what he likes, fosters what pleases him, despotically controls publicity and arrests whom he likes without charge and holds them as Jong as he likes without trial, con" temptuous of the Commission studying extraterritoriality; and that under his rigid control here the Red extremists have full liberty of action, et what they howl for, run and ruin the schools, dictate foreign Policy and even make heavy assaults upon Christianity and missionary institutions, "Yet all Beng has to do his to issue a statement. saying that he has no sympathy with commun ism but is a simple idler-patriot, doing his best under Divine Guid-

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