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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1921
THE NEW GOVERNMENT de democracy of one who was tion was brought before the Can- compassing the re-settlement of ference by the Peking section, the Chinese state on a bottom of divorced from rest of the Twenty- autocracy.
-OF CHINA.
V.
Old Hsu And The Mandarinate.
Chinese situation which is being attempt the destruction of the
been pre-
ane Demands and exposed to facile rebuttal in `favour of Japan on The Mandarin Mind.
the basis of the secret Peking No description of the Mandarin-|Tokio pacts of September 26; late can be complete without a 1915, and the other set of secret reference to the pattern oflis mind agreements between Japan and It is essentially re-actiopary Great British, France, Russia and The following is the fifth for precisely the same reason that Italy. article of the series on the Yuan Shih-kal found it easier to
And though the Chinese case re- Republic than to preserve it in garding the rest of the Twenty-
He On Demanda had written by Mr. Eugene Chan for terms of his oath of office. the Canton Information Bureau. and they of the Mandarinate are a pared with the greatest care, first, which besides being section, and, next revised by a al position of Hsu Shib-chang a system "President" of
the Republic mediaval in its intellectual and committee including Dr. Morrison, Political Adviser, Sir John brought the last article to an end moral basis, aimed at the greatest McLeavy Brown of the Chinese happiness of the few at the top. an a note of bread fares. He was Henesth the courtesy and charm Legation in London, L. Padous left denouncing the "Parliament of manner of an old mandarin as
French Adviser at Peking, and N. de Godt, the Belgian legal Ender the surface smartness of ing his sense of respect for the new mandarin, there is much adviser, (who were all at Paris Constitution (whose every article of the bureaucracy which became little significant that the Péking for the Conference), it is not a has been violated by his illegal fixed under the Manchu, with its]
Examination of the constitution product of the Manchu political or a member of the Southern
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Yuan Shib-kai and the Mandarin Southern section had been regis The Elder of the Mandarinate. ate. These articles have been
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The Chinese Peace Delegation
And
hands of a beardless youth, who
at once began to gather around- central treasury-because him the available members of the their training in public affairs appears to imagine that- running Bureaucratic system under which under the Manchu has disabled about the continent of Europe like China was "run" during the later them from following in practice tarist is the chief business of! days of the Mancha dynasty. In the fundamental rule in modern a Chinese diplomat abroad. the fret instance, the Mandarinate administration, namely, the dis- That state of things is possible
between tha personal only because the dogma of re-! consisted of typical old servants of tinction
and the state faum, cognition has hitherto been appli-j the Manchu family. And among em the first to change his livery was between one's "personal property ed br the Foreign Powers in
favour of the old men.
who are Old Hsu, who had been a Grand and public property. Councillor and a Guardian of the
too fossilised in mind to learn, and son of Heaven, aged seven. He
the young men who are too foolish | still functions as Guardian of the¦
to know that they do not know. And the explanation also covers such is the Mandarinate. regard- young man who is growing up to
the CAD525 of Chinese manhood in the seclusion of the at the Peace Conference in 1919 tion Quarter during the past ten failure ed and supported by the Lega- Forbidden City. In the centre of in so far as the same can bet the Capitalet the Chinese Retraced to the disloyalty of the capable of govering Chitra.
years as best fitted as well as public, with a learned Englishman Peking section of the Chinese
of his Peace Delegation in the vitali The Peking Microbes. multitudinous meditations in the matter of team-work. The Deleg Act as the men, so is their work, daily press, Mr. J. O. P. Bland ap-ation was made up of a Peking or The Mandarinate has so misgosein- pears ta suggest that the de-Northern section, appointed by ed China that the Chinese nation thrond chap is being trained and Old Hea and representing the now re-inced to the level of au prepared by his efficient coach Mandarinate and the "North." with a shrewd eye on "The Day" and a Southern section repre- that is to bring the return of the senting the "South" or the non-is to be qutaldered at another Ear Great Patrimony. This, of course, Mandarin class with its stoutin Congress to be held at Washing- is a real risk as long as the Man-belief and faith in the Chinese ton in November next. But Wash- darinate remains a centre of re- Republic. The Peking sectionington will yield no-cure as long asi action and retains its undoubted arrived in Paria without a the disease-microbes are not drives capacity for intrigue and mis-definite programme, relying on out of the holy politic of China- chief. Indeed. "The Day" hadmething turn up on the Old Hsa and his fellow Mandarins been fixed for some date in Mid-initiative of the American Delega- those mierches--the Pekinz summer, according to a responsition. There were two reasons for
microbes that are weakening and ble British paper in Shanghai, but this Micawberlike policy.
Nor treat- the undersigned disclosure of the 14-point man who, in M. Clemen- devitalising the Nation. conspiracy by ex-President Lea's mol, imagined himself to ment will be effective which fails to be Jesus Christ, had delivered to deal with them. And Washing Yaan-hang in an interview upset himself of sundry broad hints in tom would be a curse instead of a the arrangements for the exop the sense-at eny rate, they are if the fundamental cause si} which, for the present, stands
were 30 understood by young choa's malarly were treated in postponed for another selected wellington Koo that Americans which left its powers of mis. would see that justice was done tochiel and of national patsy increas China in the matter of Shantung
| Moment in the future.
The New Mandarins.
The
intertiational sick-man, whose state
If the Mandarinate had remain- and other masters. The other and strengthened. That is un- the fear of the of the dangers of the forthrowing ed enfined to old servitors of the reason was
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YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.Mancha family, the risk of "The Mandarinate to raise either the Conference. And it would indeed, Day" would in time pass off with Shangtung question or the wider be a terrible irony ìí President Administration-which the eventual disappearance of the issue of the Twenty One Demands Harding's
in terms that would force the bas set its beart on Lettering the JUST received a large Consigament of (1) LACTOGEN the fraternity through the lethal
Japanese Delegation to disclose
of China-should worsen it. most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during
But the secret agreements concluded yarably by settlement at the Hot Weather: (2) LACTOSE (Mile Sagar) for sweetening the foodty of age and death.
between Peking and Tokio on of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID Yuan Shih-kai had to meet INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes demand for "new talent" in order September 23, 1913. just three Conference which entrenched the Bugs, Flies and all other fuses Pests in Summer days; and to cope with matters which, un months before the meeting of Manciarinate in power in the belief Peace Conference. These that Feking is the ren) goverum:cut JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA known in the experience of the the
seasoned servants of an old line secret pacts took the form of anf China. *OAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.
of emperors, became obtrusive in railway construction agreement the case of one who would be em but were in reality.a confirma- peror.
To supply this demand. tion of the Twenty-one Demands sex blood had to be introduced Treaty relating to Shangtong in to lay than the complete enllapse into the Mandarinate. Mentioning consideration of a huge bribe of Md Hsu and Lis fellow Man names in the sense of types of re-paid in the guise of a Ioan-larins in Peking as ruling body. craits, it might be noted that there advance whereof more than half They have ceased to if they were 30: brought within the was used to finance the election
*Ter were-n gozurning force in zay ambit of the Mandarinate (a) of Old Hsu as Peking President.
part of Chinks ontside the mecliset al patriots like Tsao Ju-iin. Lu Japan's Twenty-one Demands wall of Peking. And some even Chung-yu and Chang Chung-..These agreements were then sa tint. inside of Peking, their hsiagg, (b) a Han Christian like unknown to the Southern section anthority is really effective oniz
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Dr. W. W. Yen, who manages, in a of the Dologation but mast have within their en Yamens and the provinces of the North, met in for the personal requirements of the way slightly reminiscept of some been known to at least two or three
And to this Alexandrian Neoplatonist, to fit members of the Peking section. Purlins thereof. That is what is Tientsin to consider the short real authorities.
the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity The former, however, insisted on plain to the eyes of the youngest comings of the Government in reshaped administration we again into the realist content of a mind the Delegation submitting the turfent interpreter in the Lesson Peking which had failed to borrow extend our blesstug in the form of
Demands and fashioned by his Confucian pro-Twenty-one
the quarter. And a pair of more ex suficient foreign money to maintain official recognition as the repre.... genitors and (c) a smart "states-treaties based thereon for abroga-perienced eyes has seep B same itself and to grant them allowances sentative Government of the people boy" like Master Vi-yuin Welling-tion or revisionary action by the thing and more.
for their personal armies..... They of China:
Old Hsa's Confession. ton Koo who, curiously, was first Peace Conference on the ground "Internal order is ort maintained summoned the Premier of the Chin- accredited ostensibly to the unthat the same constituted a single
the Pekingese Republic to confer with them, there were my doubt on the
transaction arising out of and
in China." Eritt
a communcation
recognised President of the Repacontected with the Great War. correspondent (who is an American) were convinced by his obsequious point, Old sa bas taken care to lic of Mexics and then shifted to and it was also urged that. the of the leading British daily in China and plainties protestations that he see that it should not exist. In an his substantive post in Washing-Shangtang question should not be in the course of a striking series had done his best without actually official reply to ton, D. C. as Yuan's representa raised as an isolated issue but of articles on the subject of with outraging popular sentiment by n from ex-President Li Yuan-bung, tive, in the week that witnessed as part of this wider case, based drawing international recognition sale of national rights and property, urging the removal of Wang Chang the launching of the Hanghsien on the attempt. of the "Japanese from Teking. The only symbol of decirled that he might stay but, yasa, then Tuchun of Hapeh, whose dynastic campaign. The young to do in and with China what authority, now recognised by the after a visit to Peking, agreed to soldiery had repeatedly mutiled mandarin was esteemed by his the Central Powers had attempted political patron, Tsao Jo-lin, as an at Brest-Litosvk with respect, to prople is the soldier, not pratrolled the elimination of such persons and looted Jchang and Wuchang, exceptional product of the de-Russia and at Bucharest in the by Peking but by the local Tuchun from the Cabinet as objected to Old Tire made, a declaration with mocratic system of God's own case of Roatania. As a result or perhaps by same underling who such sales of national rights and a following astounding confession country; and, maybe, it was of the opposition of the Feking defies even the Tachun's nathority, property, and reshaped the Govern of weakness thought that he would prove a section, the Chinese case was
Beatly three Super ment so that it would include per am left without excentive convincing witness in the City fissured and therefore fatally weak Tuchuns, Military Governors who sons with less regard for public power. Your desire is mine, bat 1 where Lincoln ruled to the authen-Jened in that the Shantang ques-alaima hegemony over all the sentiment and more consideration am powerless to realise it.