A survey of the present situation will amply prove that China, as she has demonstrated her inability' to pull herself out of the into which she has sunk, The Central Government, that is the Peking Government, the only one that shows even a semblance of be-constitutional, has practically ceased to function outside the walls of Peking. The country is dominate ed_by a number of warlords, or political factions, as the ease may, be, who have usurped the offices government over various more or less extensive areas, and who are all ut war with each other.
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