Dr, Sun seems sincerely desirous of maintaining friendly relations with the Foreign Powers, especially with Great Britain, but said that so long as they afforded moral and financial support to Peking, the Constitutionalist war for the good government of China: would never cease. It was intolerable and unjust that the Peking Government should be enabled by the machinery of the Customs and the protection of the Powers to take money from a province in order to make war on that province. On my pointing out that the step which he contemplated taking, if successful, would be, followed immediately by other provinces and would thereby wreck the whole of the Customs organization. he replied that the Pow could easily avert that by witha their support. from Peking.
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