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We will go farther, and say that the ad vocates of reunification by foro, and the A NORTHERN VIEW OF IT. Peking Gorerumeat, bear the larger mer sure of responsibility for conditions in When Dr. Sun Yatsen returned to Kwangtung, but there is no doubt that Canton some months ago, he outlined had the lenders of the Southern party large programumo of reform which includbeen animated with the purest motives, and guided by elementary statesmanship ed the modernisation of Kwangtung Prinstead of rampant jealousies and petty vince, with the assistance of British ex-ambitions, they would have been able to perts, the construction of railways, ex-clear the province of the tools of the ploitation of the natural resoures of the North long ago. No house divided against province, reduction of taxation, suppers itself can stand for long even in fair sion of piracy and brigandage, and the weather, and the secret of the collapse of abalonment of the paratist policy for the Kuorningtang programe and the that of reunification. Foreigners as well infinite discredit which has fallen upon the party leaders is the bitter domestic as the Cantonese merchants looked him
feuds that have ever been the curse of to make of that, Provines a mede of Cantones political parties and are al virulent that there souma no modern methods and progressivism in Present so China He had an extremely favourable hope of the attainment of unity.
Tan Kuomintang is fawning upon the reception in Hongkong, where there was
God of Wealth," as the Canton pager, quite a ceremonious burial of past mis understandings, and a demonstration of is proud to call him-the description has Talways possesed a rather cynical quality mutual bejpfyhess and sympathy. day there is no province in the whole of in the North and has exhibited the live this chaotic country which is more constitutionalist Cause.
liest joy at his espousal of the ** Con pletely given over to civil war, brigand the time whon Liang Shih-yi was the It has forgotten ge, political intrigue, official pawnbrok ing, looting, common erine, and disorder soul, body and mind of the Yuan Monar- There are even whispers of corruption is chical searme, and when it denounced the netpal government, and the Mayor, him with the most violent epithets. It who is a son of the Generalissimo, has has embraced Yeh Kung-cho "with a deep replied to the charges against financials of joy and satisfaction," and over officials connection with the sale of looks his long career in Northern poli- public lands. merely by demanding the tie But while its hospitality is thus widened, the Kuamingtang þierarchy al- submission of evidence, "It is not unwolutely refuses to treat with Chen common to witness the commandering of all able-bodied men, supplies for the Chiung-ming, one of the oldest and ablest army, "requisition of ships, etc., when the of its members. It has not syon "per. mitted him to ask for peace. In spite country is in the throes of war," of all that has happened recently, in spite placently observes the Canton Daily | Vees, in the course of a lame and halt the unique opportunity the crisis in the North affords, in spite of the clamar- ing apology for the appalling senndals and disorders which make up the history news of the country, in spite of the of the province wing: San Tate's which is overwhelming the Cantonese poli- widespread chaos in Kwangtung Province turt All that even this apologist can ticinus in lasting digeredit, in spite of offer in testimony both to the high the possibility of foreign intervention, !matives and administrative ability of the
Sun Yatan listens to those advisers who present regime is that the strrits and refuse to tolerate any compromise with lanes of Canton are clean, water Chen Chiung-ming and pursues his run- light are supplied with earely yous course which is desolating one of the interruption." the police and merchants corp-krep sp vigilant guard at all places inces in the country:
wealthiest and most "progressive pro-
The leaders of so that Canton is as safe as any other the Old Chiastung Clique realise the city of its size and population, business goes on briskly, people look cherrfel, ten esities of the situation, and are at house grd ausent places are very wellping to bridge the gulf. The real patronised, and “though extra taxes area is whether Hu Han-min shall be fevied, and scandalous rumours caused by
dominant in the Komingtang counsels, or Chen Chiung-ming. Between these two. Troublemakers tend to spread a certain there is a blood feud. The former is the: amount of "scare in the minds of the nest sinister figure in Chinese politics, a prople,"
yet the people place confidence man whose unscrupulous villainy far sur in the administration. The paper ends on passes the crude brutalities of Northern a note of relief and antisfaction, wel Military satrapa, and it is the most dis it might, and urges its readers to think of the future of woproeriented prosper quieting feature of all the scandals that ity and happiness, which will come when cent months that he is still-powerful
have developed in Kwangtung during r the task of pacificntinu is completed,
Probably ever since the Republic has in the Knomingtang hierarchy. He is the Canton suffered so severely as it has dur istrument of all evil in the fallen Kuo- mintang Paradise, and natil he has been ing the past two months. The Coverswept out of the way there is on hope ent has adopted every conceivable device of Estter things. Chen Chiunging is to satisfy its desperate fuancis need not only a far abler man, but a man who and the actions have never been sur is as honest na Hu Han niin is unscrupul passed either in magnitude 2}} nous, and until Sun Yat-sen puts a stop sea reefulness. The res mereants were rained by the seizure of almost the whole to all the preposterous talk of Chen's alleged treachery. restores his former of the available supplies in the eity, and right-hand man, and works in unison with they were compelled for the moment to him, he will accomplish nothing, and be cease all importation. House owners have ultimately driven out of the provinc Ilwen laid under contribution, and only‘a.
either by the enraged populace who are work or two ago were commanded to parunnuring for a composition with. Chen the quivalent of a month's rent for every Ching-ming-or hy another Northern haus they owned. The dishonest little Expedition-Peking & Tentsin Times Incat paper when reporting this further! levy added that the people of Canton were again enthusiastically supporting the Generalissimo" Government lands have been sold wholesale, and so"recklesa.
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We do not suppose that even the orde nary Cantonese citizen, who wishes notb ing better than to be allowed to buy and sel in reasonable freedom, and safety, and has no passion for polities, has been more crushingly disappointed than the British in Hongkong at the brutal rio- lenco which has been done to their hopes. Peace and order in that province are indispensable to the prosperity of the Crown Colony, and British trade has suf fered very considerably from the anarchy that prevails The Kuomintang hier- archy have made à ghastly mess of every- thing, and now, when the Chibli Party have brought new disrepute to Northern polities, and are themselves, mensen with barlys's through internal dissensions, they have only the record of their rule in Kwangtung 'since April to present to public opirion in courting its favours. They are admittedly not wholly to blame.
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