Brig-Gen. Bruce's Warning of Coming Disintegration if Continued London, Aug. 15.
Strong measures to suppress Tuchun rule are the principal feature of a scheme propounded by Brigadier-General C. D. Bruce in a letter to-"'The Times" for the solving of China's present problem of disintegration. He says that, if nothing is done, disintegration by the Tuchuns will soon be an accomplished! fact. The still existing possibility of the unification of China cannot survive many more years of tuchun misrule.
The writer expresses the opinion that, next to the British, the Chinese are the most truly democratic nation in the world. They enjoyed a monarchical government like' the British for' centuries, and he doubts if any Asiatic nation can flourish as a Republic. Brigadier-General Brace believes that, if it were possible to carry out a referendum in China, restitution of the monarchy would receive millions of votes, and that that would best suit the country's present condition, but he realizes that it is for the Chinese to evolve their own Government and for the foreign Powers to aid them in upholding it.
He proposes that the Powers should tell the Centrat Government that it should hold each Tuchun responsible for the lives of foreigners and for safe travel, and that the foreign Powers should back up Chinese measures to deal strongly with them within two years and also to provide money for gratuities to and reassimilation into civil Jife of the Tuchuns and their disarmed adherents.
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