The Canton Information Bureau supplies the following manifesto by Dr. Sun Yat-sen dated Canton June 6:—"Hsu Shih-chang's retirement removes the first of several obstacles to the effective restoration of Parliament as an agency of national unification. His illegal assumption of office as President of the Republic of China in 1918 gravely widened the political division which has been created by Li Yuan-hung's unconstitutional dissolution of Parliament in 1917. And his continuance in office has resulted in the utter disorganization and collapse of government as well as in the lowering of the credit and prestige of China to an unprecedented degree, "Tt seems that the Treaty Powers are not wholly free from responsibility. for this deplorable situation. Notwithstanding warnings and protests, they recognized Hsu Shih-chang as President of China in circumstances which converted their recognition of him into what might be considered a concerted act of intervention in the internal affairs of this country. He was able, for instance, to draw upon those surplus national revenues which are collected under foreign supervision and the release of which the Great Powers claim be control. He was also ina position to contract foreign loans. Without these surpluses and loans Hsu Shih-chang might have succeeded in misruling China for four weeks but not for well-nigh four years.
"As Chief Executive of the sole de facto as well as de jure governing body in this country that is fully constituted at this moment, have the honour to remind the Treaty Powers of their repeated pledge of non-interference in our present internal struggles and to request them to observe the same. the spirit as well as in the letter. In reality these struggles are a memorable effort at national readjustment. As in the case of every people in history who have had to change in order to live, we are now engaged in the work of readjusting the old life of China to an environment greatly changed in its political and economic aspects. If this readjustment is to be real, it must be effected by Chinese with-cut interference by the Great Powers. A fresh recognition by the latter of some new puppet Peking President would be such an act of interference and would lead, if that were possible, to a more calamitous cycle of events than that originated by the international recognition of Hsu Shih-chang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.