Recognition Must Be Withdrawn from Peking: Striking Appeal to Powers We are indebted to the Generalissimo's Headquarters, Department of Foreign Affairs, Canton, for the following full text of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's manifesto to the Foreign Powers':—The Chinese people have suffered long and heavily under the burden of militarism which has brought in its train civil war, disunion, and anarchy. The recent deplorable bandit outrage on one of the trunk railways, though startling to the outside world, is, to the long-suffering Chinese people, but another incident of innumerable—similar happenings in places little known, another count in their indictment against their oppressors. When it pointed out that within a radius of 100 miles of Lincheng, adjoin the territories of five provinces under the military jurisdiction of the most prominent and powerful Militarists of the North, whose soldiery umber officially half a million, it will be realized what the extent of the evil and the futility of militarism ts.
Vhen the events transpiring in Peking during the last 12 months, to take a no longer period, are recollected, during which time a so-called President has been pushed into office and dragged out of ®, and a bewildering number of Premiers and Cabinets have been set up and pulled down, all solely at the pleasure of the Militarists to gain their own ambitions. it will be realized what the extent of the unruliness and the fickleness of the Militarists is. The Chinese people have in no uncertain voice time and again repudiated the claim of such men to be their rulers and have longed for the blessings of peace and unity in the land.
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