One bit of evidence in favour of this assumption is the thod of eager gossip that poured aver Peking when it was known that Chang Tso-lin was coming to Tientsin and Peking. No une in the streets paid the least attention the official assurances hat he was coming for the sole purpose of reviewing his troops and checking over the records of a few of his unpopular subordinates. That! might be part of his mission, the but with all this dis-this Red eruption into the Yangtze, with Wu Pel-fu's ear Ehsanefanes called treachery, and the failure nie Pay set must be coming to military to the ban on Tientsin silver and the balance is slowly The Advantage of Despotism The foreign bankers who have been incommoded by this series of events, of course see in it another This one) circles.
This very strong feeling soon gave birth to tio sere of rumours, one of which was immediately taken up, by the native press, while the other was witispered about from circle to circle with "nething very closely approaching enthusiasm. The fire occasion for cursing the believing as do mest Chines the hin veulating in exchange, 'A. philosophical nese seed merehane with whom writer discussed che situation drew na form that] certainly would occur to few forand preached quite w lift! political hont'ly: on it.
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renting net iitectiy. re with uny hope of Sometiting vital, but must. alway take no part in its creation. irreaponsibye while" the, people if the Chinese people, powerful but "We hate wus set of vimenes had it that Chang Tso-tin wax about to be made, of make himself, President. The native wk this up with avidity an ita usual fondness for specula-upon technicalities, wasted] columns of space upon the vation: recedents, constitutional and inal, which he might pos-report. was about to Liao." This. rea little explanation to show historical precedent makes to Chinese imaginations.
Tae Kingdom of Li ntly before the year 900 A.D. the Tang Dynasty collapsed und China entered a period of purposed destructive feudal strife, historians refer to as ths Five Dynasties. Any.
as discussed the Republics ore that followed the people do not Kus sine for thais ie rem terrible as You foreign: they provinces in the ang Empire. The aboriginal than] owed to run amok, here in Chihli and in the ces a series of] la ation ineposed it, it would still force aad a let of ws would be costating in their effects. Sons betrayed fathers and brothers fought on opposite sides. Si
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