An Authoritative Statement To the Editor of the "Nowri-Cuina Dai News"
=I, as the oficial representa tive of Gen. Teng Hsi-hou, have to Protest most emphatically with you regarding the fact that you are giv ing currency In to-day's issue" of your esteemed newspaper to the Feport by the Japanese Rengo agency to the effect that Gen. Liu Wen-hui, Gen, Tien Sung-yao, and Gen. Teng Hsi-hou, being dissatisfied with Marshal' Liu Hsiang's policy of rap-brochement with Nanking, had de-lared their independence from the Central Government as from' the second instant. Of course, there is not a single grain of truth in this piece of news. I can assure you that Gen. Teng, more than anybody else in Szechuan, wishes Marshal Liu Hsiang to ce-operate with Nanking and has done his humble bit to bring about that end. The present Central Government is more powerful than any of its predecessors and will be bound to make its influences felt increasingly from day to day. The soldiers in the far west owe more allegiance to the Central Government than at any time before by reason of the daily deepening convietion that only by thus doing can the unification of China be effected.
amount of propaganda aiming at sowing the seed of dissension will prevail.
Shanghai, Jan. 6.
And Tennyson means what he here writes in the fullest possible sense. Its not the Christ of any restrictive Christian sect to which he refers but to. the Cosmic Christ to be truy found in all those religions and philosophies in which the ideals of humanity are firmly recognized and upheld. But do not let us make the amiistalc of thinking that the way may bbe easy: it is.one thing to recognize the way' but @ vastly harder thing to follow it. 'There are Christian sects which preach and practice, oF hope to practice, a religion of success, and happiness from which all sorrow and suffering have been removed. Bi again, one of the greatest Churches holds' up the ideal of achievement through suffering—ot no life-of ease but of stress and strain until the suf-forings passed through culminate ina happiness beyond all earthly dose tion. Thus may China take heart realizing that through her present suf-forings may be born a New China—a China to which the rising generations may look forward to the future rather than backward to the glories of the past. And here the American poet, Walt Whitman, comes to our aid writing as follows—
"Weave lasting sure, weave day and We Know not Why oF wha yet weave, Not China alone but the whole world may well take to heart the exhortations of our two great poets and in the light of their inspiration go forward with a rising hope that "the best is yet to be."
Acoer F. Banker, Shanghai, Dec. 31.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.