"The Marshal"
One would hope that political partisanship will not altogether deprive the late Marshal Chang Tso-lin of the tributes due to his memory as a great man among the Sons of Han. For that he surely was, whether one agreed with him politically or not. His rise from humblest beginnings to the dominating position he had held for the last ten years proved him to be a man of extraordinary ability. We have heard that in his youth he attracted the attention of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who certainly was mo mean judge of character. The story may be only a legend. Certainly it is since her death that his real work has been done. With no education in youth, Chang Tso-lin found time later in life to acquire a fair proficiency as scholar; and a scholar, curiously enough, he looked far more than the fire-eater and war lord that his opponents depicted him, with his small figure, his seemingly depreeating mien and fragile hands. That ho was a born administrator, is proved by the state of prosperity to which he raised Manchuria in the years preceding the fatal outbreak of war in the autumn of 1924. of The account of the outbreak itself is very interesting. The point of importance is, and always has been, that the Japanese took down their defences at the Chinese commanders' request and accepted the latter's assurances that order would be Kept. That ought to be enough to convince people that the Japanese: troops were not the aggressors. The statement is likely to make no little impression on the League and on Governments represented in it, Trade Mark Registration It is difficult to reply to Mr, Vu Hung-chun's letter in this morning' correspondence column without losing one's temper, This question of registering trade marks with a municipal bureau is nothing new. Every foreign firm has been faced by the demands of the bureau and the question has been taken up on several occasions with the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. Are we to infer that Mr. Vu knows nothing about the Trade Mark Registry which was set up by his Municipality at 98 Rue Massenet, French Concession, last year, or, is he simply at tempting to end an' unfortunate si tuation by mere denial? The Trade Mark Bureau in views, the outsider should hardly venture to speak, That he could not see eye to eye with the South who regarded him as the emblem of all they wished to destroy, is obvious. But was he really less of a Nationalist—a word which does not necessarily mean only an apostle of the New Demism—than his antagonists? Was he even more deserving to be dubbed militarist 1 For the past two or Chang. was' always consistent in his public utterances. Bolshevism, he insisted, was all that Feng Vu-hsiang Many Chinese would say he had reason. In other respects one cannot repress a feeling that, by a little mutual concession (and no one has an absolute monopoly of correctness in politics for anything else), he might have been spared to do good work for China and would readily have done His end was tragic. He was defeated, not by force of arms, but, there can be little doubt, by treachery; snd there surely a dark and irty story behind the bombing. of his train which reflects black shame on all who had any share in the management and guarding of the railway. What Chang Teo-lin would have done had he lived, is, of course, pure speculation. But for the peace and welfare of China one hopes that scope may yet be found for others who, although they have borne farms against the South, by means hostile to the ideals which the latter proclaim and have eapacities for public service which China can ill spare. comes under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the records of which Dr. H.H, Kung has just taken over in Peking. Why should firms be asked to register their trade marks a second time when Dr. Kung is in possession of the records of their first registration? That, after all, is the crucial question, We may infer, however, from Mr, Yu's letter that a second registration is unnecessary, that the Municipal Trade Mark Bureau has gone out of existence and that there will be no further difficulties, If that is the intention of Mr. Yu's letter, our congratulations go to his Government on the good cense they are showing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.