The foreign observer of this nation cannot help feeling, in spite of the prejudice against Tuan Chi-ju¥'s Anfu following, that there is' something not only' pathetic but unfair in what amounts to the old man's cold dismissal. "For more than 15 months he was in a most difficult. and humiliating position here. For a year he was virtually. hostage in Feng Vu-hsiang's camp while his friends were put under arrest or done aay with, as Little Hsu's ease, Throughout time, however, he worked openly, consistently and courageously check upon Feng's Red enterprises true that he was brought to affix his name to the Kuominchun mandate against Wu Pei-fu and that] is followers did all they could to break up the Wu Pei-fu-Chang Tso-in alliance by trying to arrange a separate peace between Fengtien and the Kuominchun. In spite of all this Toan Chi-jui has much the same concern for China's welfare and the same clear-sighted under standing of her needs as Wu Pei-fa and Chang Teo-lin, He has the same old-fashioned Chinese regard for discipline and_ order and the same aversion to the kind of dome ie and foreign affairs that Feng Vu-hsiang patronized under Russian Tuan Chi-jai_ still has presi moreover, and it seems a pity that the military leaders who} have ce-operated to drive out the! Kuominchun could not see their wav clear to using it. The Anfu following has. a bad name, but the worst members of the party are cer. tainly no worse than many of the are again coming to the surface, many of whom are nothing but political scavengers. A good thorough house cleaning would be of tremendous help to each of these factions and if the big. could have ce-operated on the unde standing that they would agree upon the elimination of the mora disreputable of their entourage, it would have been a much greater} ina than the remo The collapse of Feng Vu-hsia is, of course, worth while at almost any cost, but it seems to Peking that the metropolitan area is paying] a great deal more heavily than need be. The citizens have been s for more than a year that the capi tal could better afford looting soldi ery than the pious impositions of the insatiable Kuominchun, bat there was no good excuse for th barbarity which the incoming sold ery, particularly there of the Shantung command, have shown towards the villagers." The outrages per petrated beggar description and th efforts now being made at contro! are still half-hearted. The conduct of the White Russians is particularly 2 disgrace.to the whole Occidental gomminity, in the Orient... They] have shown here a fiendish: ava-gory which would have discredited mediaeval mercenaries, Their kin-! red of the Cheka have certainly never behaved worse. Some of the Shantung soldiery have been almost as bad. The rape of women and children of all ages is reported on good authority from almost every village north, east and south of the ible hut is Jootwindows, furniture and implements are chopped up for fuel. Even the roof timbers have been torn out of houses in the Tungchow neighbourhood to serve as firewood. The Legations as well as individual foreigners all have servants whose families are in the suburbs and the writer has yet to Jearn: of a man whose home is out~ side the walls who hig not been robbed of everything he owns. Chang Heueh-liang's statement that these stories are exaggerated are on a par with his father's statement that Peking was not bombed.
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