Peking, Aug. '11.
In reporting yesterday an interview with Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, the writer omitted to record several of the retired leader's comments upon current issues. One subject discussed was the mooted abolition of the pfesideney and the substitution of 4 governing Commission. Marshal Tuan expressed the opinion that this would be a change in name without a fundamental cure of China's problems. He could not see how the substitution of a number of presidents for a single president would make the republican form of government a better fit in China.
Another remark, of more significance, was te the effect that one of the principal ways in which foreigners could help China at thig moment was to withhold all leans frem_any and all govern-mants. until China had been brought to consider means for financing her own government and paying off the debts which she had already contracted.
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