Mr. Tang Shao-yi has sent a telegram directly to his former political proteges and. pupils, Dr. W. W. Yen, Dr. C. T. Wang and
to leave Peking government, Dr. Wellington Koo, bidding them and return to the anti-militarist fold in which they built up their reputations. It must be remembered that Dr. W. W. Yen was passed in his imperial examination for returned students by Mr. Tang; that he appointed Dr. Wang to his first ministerial post as vice-minister of Labour and Commerce in the first Republican cabinet; and that. Dr. Wellington Koo was under his wing even as a student in America and that he was given office under the late Yuan Shih-kai after recommendation by Mr. Tang. The venerable southern leader therefore writes to them not as a politician in an opposing camp but as one who in a sense is responsible; for their political careers.
In this telegram Mr. Tang is joined by Mr. Chang Ping-lin, who! possesses enormous prestige as one of the greatest of China's scholars and who combines in himself the finest traditions of old scholarship with a broad spirit of liberalism. Every character of Mr. Chang's writing is treasured by those who are interested in calligraphy and the original of the massage iis in hig personal handwriting.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.