Tt is believed that the highly conscientious delegate who has brought back this story will have the courage to make it public shortly, after which we may reasonably expect political developments in the North as startling as those which have followed upon Wu Pei-fu's charge against Liang. One thing is certain, an official! publication and confirmation of this story would give Liang Shih-yi and Hsu Shih-chang their quietus as public figures, for it is a charge for which the former could offer no possible extenuation and a responsibility which the latter could not possibly evade.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.