Peaceful American citizens were robbed of all their earthly possessions, their homes looted and burnt, their' schools, hospitals and churches ruined, desecrated and turned into stables—in short everything established by American funds was wantonly, vie'ously, diabolical destroy American women were out re ed; American men and women shot down in cold blood; and American survivors forced to flee with their bare lives from those fiends in haman forms—those Na-analist soldiers, whom Dr. Yui boldly and brazenly extolls to an' American audience.
Let Americans at home and especially those in this land, never forget that but for the precaution: ary measures of our Minister at Peking and our consuls at the different ports; that but for the timely. protection of our entire festival) took about eight hours to pass the reviewing stand hundred thousand or so strong, some perched precariously on decorated floats or riding in fineres, most marching in perspiring pagean. try or less irksomely as the simple singing public, Thousands after thousands passed with their inners and posters and signing proclaiming their origin. On, snd on they came, past the grandstands erected for them around the ring, the windows filled with spectators. On, on they mare ched in unbelievably extended for-motion. The head of the procession wed at ten, the tail not until six, And all the time crowds Tined the way, some even standing in the sun, waving and cheering till the last singing matcher hud passed.
The Austrian-German Union Political significance was injected into the convention by speeches the union of Germany and Austria, a possibility regarded by many: the only solution of Austria's economic problem. It was heartily acclaimed by the union and German-Austrian Jovefeasting was general, but it is doubtful whether this will have definite politics results, The Peace provisions at - present forbid any rap. brochement and the two nations have various incompatibilities of temperament.
And now the summer is ever. The grass plots trampled beneath. the feet of musical hordes have greened over again.
The nights are crisp and the sun sets too early. Holidays are over. Schools and the Opera have re-opened. The September Fair, bigger and better than ever, has just ended. An autumn of new plays and operas, of country tramps and mellow heurigers, of art shows and lectures opens promis: ingly: ed by American funds, who under these circumstances are guilty of agitating against—extra-territorality or for revision of treaty, should be ordered to live—with their families, in Nationalist territory, under' Nationalist Inw—in fact, to be consistent they should voluntarily live there.
Militarism is at an End Dr. Yui says so, I challenge this statement. Never before in the history of Chinn was militarism 80 powerful and at such a height as to-day. Under the imperial gime, there was located one Gentai or general in the principal city of a district und at the provineial capital. Their soldiers. numbered two to five hundred mon.
'Officially they ranked below the civilian officials of the place' and the soldiers all over China constituted the lowest dus of soci In the new republic, 1911, genet and soldiers sprang up from the ground like the dragon teeth of cld. Since the advent of the Nationalists, hundreds of generals, tens and huntlreds of thousands of soldiers are fighting, plundering, jpilaging, Kilting' and oppressing the people in every part. of this vast land, Read the dail from Shantung, Manchur's Feng. tien, Chili, Szechuan, Honan,, Hupeh, Kinngsi, Anhui, Kiangsu, oto. all are on the warpath this very day.
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