It is reported here on excellent authority that Marshal hang Ts0- lin recently sent a personal representative to Peking to propose to the Legations that the Powers should oise a loan of £7,000,000 to finance a rehabilitated northern coalition which would undertake'the invasion The elimination of Red nonsense and the reunification of China., would probably be worth much more to the world-than the price named, but any diplomat who ig not aware by now of the futility of trying to buy peace in China will never know enough to come in out of the rain. Quite apart from this aspect of the. pro. posal, one wonders where the Marshal thinks the security for such Joan is to be found in China,
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