With all due deference to General Munthe and his ability as an organizer and a disciplinarian;- any scheme which he may suggest at this juncture, like any scheme which may come from abroad, is in the sight of the foreign communities in China, a dangerous diversion of attention from the one vital business of getting the Chinese military to admit their responsibility for the maintenance of order.
We may not be in a position to take all the militarists on once and discipline them as they deserve, but with the Lincheng issue as a starting point we can at least make a mighty conspicuous beginning by holding one super-Tuchun responsible and by making an example of him. We do not. need armies of occupation from: Home to tell Tsao
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