"The career of "Little Hau" is not devoid of lamour. Some months ago, it will be remembered, he was captured in attempting to enter the Settlement, where it was perfectly well known that his designs were nything hut peaceful. Then he wae deported. From Hongkong he sent a message to his friends in Shanghai, to say how happy he was and what honours had been paid him: the Governor had sent a barge meet him and provided him with a special guard at his veeidence, The Suvge, it need hardly be said, was the equivalent of "Black Maria" and the guard was to see that he did not escape. Since then "Little Hsu" has been shipped off to Europe, And when the Anfu party got back into: power in Peking they at once proceeded to whitewash their former chieftain by announcing that he had been appointed special envoy from the Peking Government to. study political affairs in Europe. Yesterday, came a telegram that "Little Hsu" had sent to Peki his new post would necessity his cing supplied with a number of.sweretaries, who accordingly are being sent to him. (The said secretaries appear to be for the mest part military men for whom there iny job. in China), Now: comes the climax. Yet a further telegram saya that Little How" is "studying: the. organiza tion of the League of Nations" and that "he will attend the resum Opium Conference on January 19? To be perfectly just, we have never heard that "Little "Hsu" was an. opium smoker. But in all other particulars, the frets we have re-luted eorstitute one of the biggest. imaertinenees that one could well volve. For the Peking Govern:
permit such a man to ate the International Conference insult to that ustembly not to be tolerated, Of rse the Anfu purty wish to give deported leader all the "face" they can. But surely there will be somebody at Geneva who will under= tind the eireumstanees of the cass insist that "Little face" Ix not to be recovered at the expense of the dignity of the Opium Conference,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.