"What," T asked "is your i war-about?"
"Quite true," he said, "and fully appreciate the good intentions of the Britis Me. Kellogg, too, has made a tion in that sense, although there tare as yet no definite proposals fror the United States. Of course the aspiration of the Chinese people is towards a general treaty revision on a basis of equality and reciprocity. We hope thut after taking Peking we shall not disappoint the world.
Our troops know the cause they are fighting for, because is one of our innovations to explain through a publicity corps attached to every army corps the purpose and progress of our campaign." civil war," he said, other Chinese civil wars since the Republic because it 5 a definite object. The Nationlist Government. has an object political and economic. Politically it is our object when we have captured Po-ing to call a National Convention to decide the details of the Republican stem of government we propose to adopt, Economically we want to develop rapid means of communica tion through the construction of railways, motor roads, and the it provement of our present canal system, "We shall be able to start the THe Chinese Government has been requested by merchants in Chile to take steps to prevent unscrupulous merchants from shipping opium in goods intended for exhibition in th World's Commercial Exhibit which ly to be held there shortly, They say that the exhibition of Chinese goods avill assist Chinese trade considerably and prove to be of immense value to, merchants. in China but, should steps not be taken. to prevent the unscrupulous from sending opium, all the good work minor work from the proceeds of taxation and the saving on army expenditure. The bigger work will be dependent on foreign loans, but that is not yet. We also want to develop agriculture and our mineral Tesourees and to improve interna tional trade. Our programme is Dr. Sun's programme, which was definitely adopted by the Nationalist Government, We want a parliament ary system, but the National Assembly will decide."
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