The Archive · 1922

From Rodney Gilbert

It is reported in Shanghai en good authority that one of the Chinese delegates to the Washington Conference who. recently returned, one whose word will not be lightly set aside by any faction or element in China, has given information to his friends which shows that Wu Pe"fw was fully justified in sending his now famous telegram upon the Shantung issue which upset the Liang cabinet and led to such radical political changes in the North as the isolation of the President, the reappearance of Tuan Chi-jui in polities and the consummation of the Chang Tso-lin—Sun Yat-sen understanding.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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