To the Editor of the "Nortn-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Here is an interesting historic contribution which has not yet been made public, but which is absolutely true.
At the end of February 1912, Dr. Sun Yat-sen sent delegates to Peking to ask Yuan Shih-kai to come to Nanking to take the oath and assume office as President of the New Republic.
At 9 o'clock on the evening of February 28, two ying of troops of the Third Division mutinied outside the Tung Chih Men, Peking, at the instigation of their Commander, Tsao Kun. It was the next morning ere the game was made clear. Tsao Kun called on Yuan Shih-kai, and an eye-witness of the visit soon tumbled to the game that Tsao Kun was playing, viz., to frame a mutiny to keep Yuan Shih-kai from going to Nanking—on the plea that the soldiers in Peking would not allow This is the type of man now scheming to become President and his trick of staging the revolt of the police in Peking and the bringing of the Christian General into the dirty game is_ typical of the methods of Tsao Kun ever since 1912, You may ask how this concerns foreigners; but are we not here for trade? and, with a certainty that under Tsao Kun affairs will become more chaotic and Lincheng be repeated on a larger scale, it surely behooves us to act. Our diplomats may be alive to the situation, but it does not look like it, and all -business and, for that matter of it, all interests here should insist that Tsao Kun and his tribe do not control affairs in China; in this we will have the backing of all the best Chinese of the land.
Tam, ete.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.