Lacking People's Participation, he Predicts it will be as Barren ax Predecessors Peking, Jan. 19. replying Marshal Tuan Chi-jui's invitation to attend the Rehabilitation Conference, preliminary conference proposed in manifesto Issued. in Canton on November 13, firstly, because in {addition to preparing the convocation of a people's assembly, it is empowered to deal with and take binding decisions on financial ud military questions ect nation, and, secondly, it exclude from ' its deliberations various people's organizations whose inclu sion in the preliminary' conference 0 insisted upon points out that previous runees all proved barren the people were consistently ion, even Proceedings being withheld from public.
These conferences. he ing actual power in the country. also adopt the principle of those holding power and ignore the rights of the people. 1 fear, therefore, that your conference, constituted as' it is, will prove as. much a failure as those preceding. writer gues un tw say that, Ir having carefully considered the 1 wish to writ conference being called, request the inclusion in your conference vf a limited number of people's representatives elected wlustrial and merchant, educational societies, uni:
students' unions, " trade unions and agricultural associations. If this is done, I am prepared to agree to your conference and its rules, subject, However, to all the resolutions on military and financial problems being reserved for final decision by the people's assembly. which would follow Dr. Sun concludes by declaring: "The people are the masters of country. The Government are their: servants, Tano and Wu sought oppress the people. We are trying' {to start anew. Let us give back to the people their right position ax masters and let the Government jin be their servants."—Reuter' Pacific Service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.