As amazing as it may appear, a number of Wu Pei-fu's adherents have gone over to Sun Chuan-fang. Tt was reported after the Nanking: conference a little more than a month ago that there had been somewhat of a split among the intellectual and political following of Wu Pei-fa and that many of the refugee colony in Shanghai and Tientoir. had gone over to the Nan-, king tupan. In their opposition to the Kuominchun and to Feng Yuhsiang and all that he represents, there is aa element among the tellectual who will join with any, man or any group, who will make any connexion, domestic or foreign, who will utilize any, means to, Jachieve their purpose." Many of, these men feel that Sun Chuan-fang rather than Wu Pei-fu° will ulti. mately succeed in' dislodging the Kuomiachua from Peking and in sending Feng Vu-hsiang on his trip around the world. They do not believe that the philanderings between Nanking, Paotowchen and Canton are to be regarded a more than the manceuvres of wary politi ians. They feel that Wu Pei-fu in too old a school to succeed against the forces of public opinion engendered by the Kuomintang, They cannot risk their struggle against the "Christian" general on. the possibility of Wu Pei tu's reactionary success, The Alliance with Fengtien In this connexion, mention must be made of the unpopularity of Wa Pei-fu's alliance with Chang Tso-lin in local intellectual centres, Wu Pei-fu returned to public life the basis of opposition to. Chang Tso-lin. He attacked the Mukden leader not in the usual parlance of political manifestoes, but he villified him personally.' Within three month of the villifcation, he joins with Chang Tso-lin in an attack on the Kuominchun. For a time, they move about the stage without explaining themselves. Then Wu. Pei-fu comes out with an attack on Bolshevism and says that Feng Yuchsiang must be driven from Public life because of his relationship to the Russians, whose doctrine is destroying the morals of the youth of the country. The state ment was not convincing. It left men, who had for many la sympathy with Wu. Pel had supported him during campaigns, with a strong the emptiness of his intellectual background.
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