Circumstantial details concerning prophecies extracted from the Beyond by means of something akin to an ouija board are contained in a recent number of the Peking Leader." the experiment took place at Tientsin, when instead of the orthodox ouija board a wooden pen was held over a board covered with sand, and suddenly, to the surprise of the Chinese present, it began to write. The spirit animating the pen turned out to be that. of General Lu Chien-fang, a southern politician who died in 1920, and he proceeded to give details concerning China's immediate future. In September, he mentioned, a definite change would come over China's affairs (this very nearly agrees with Old Moore), order will be rapidly restored and unification accomplished. The capital of the country will be changed to Wuchang, but before that is carried out, Wu Pei-fu will die at "'a station" (railway?) Chang Tso-lin, Tuan Chi-jui, Tsao Kun and Sun Yat-sen will survive him but will cease to have any influence on the nation's affairs, and an entire-cly new set of men will be in charge. Before, however, the predicted improvement sets in, things will become worse than they are. Some of the Chinese, we are told, took the prophecy very seriously, but others went away unconvinced that it was accurate. This, it seems, is likely to prove a fair summary of the outlook of people generally on the prophecy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.