"It is probable that there force in China that could stop a single American division in organized fuillitary operations, and a force equivalent to eight or ten American Aivisions could dissipate and reduce to military impotence every serious unit in the country, effecting a complete occupation, which could be. maintained as long as necessary: The purely military task would be 0 easy as to justify search for the most benevolent way of performing 'As to guerilla warfare, in whicn would be exhibited the' universal hostility of an implacable populace, and which would require for its control such diffusion of an occupying force as to augment greatly} the numbers needed for regular operations, nothing of the kind would be necessary. The maintenance of such warfare calls for! Bacrifices and strenuous efforts, and spirit which can be sustained only by resentment against the pressure of injurious tyranny, or by an intense patriotism which the Chinese masses do not have. There is exotic nationalism of "New China," but Dr, Sun Yat-sen himself has said that his people in general not possess national. feeling, which must be inculcated in thers. Who task of arousing it, however, in the face of a beneficent rule whi Would really consider the interests! the people, would be great, and would have to labour continuously against the Chinese popular disposition to acquiesce in a regime under which they are permitted quietly to pursue their vocations. There is plenty of evidence of the!
amount of force which is necessary to put down Chinese! uprisings, even where there genuine grievance; and with provement of previously unsatisfactory conditions the native common sense of the Chinese race can be relied upon to make the meu: tion of belief in a false grievance too dificult for the continuous success of the agitator. The ""Red Spears" and other similar peasant organizations have been a serious annoyance: to the armies of warring militarists central China; but these people have been harried to near death by the soldiery, their crops and animals taken, their homes looted and their women ill-treated; and in desperation, with nothing left to lose, they have taken to reprisals against their tormentors, of which not the least unfortunate effect is to leave then: addicts of the bandit habit for an indefinite time.
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