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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 28, 1938.

The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication 3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, Telephone 20022.

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The title has an origin about which even the old officials dis- pute. Some say that it was the name of a street in Peking where the clique used to meet. Others that it combined the first sylla- bles of the two provinces of An- hwei and Fukien whence some of them hailed. However that may be, this clique was a pro- Japanese faction, paid or unpaid, which rose to power in the Pek- first

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President of the Republic, Yuan publication should be addressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by Shi-kai, died in 1916.

At this time the Japanese were the Writer's Name and Address, already deeply fishing in China's but troubled waters. They had in 1915 presented the infamous Twenty-one Demands--demands which, if accepted in their tirety, would have accomplished what is now purposed, the re- duction of all China to the sta- tus of a Japanese province. That they were not accepted was due largely to the enterprise of cer- tain newspapermen in Peiping in Hong Kong, Friday, January 28, 1938. flashing them around the world.

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It was not China's strength that saved her; it was world publicity HEARTENING FOR which impelled Japan, who was

CHINA

The revelations of the Peiping

then trying to build up a reputa- tion as a loyal World War ally, to climb down.

.

The retreat, however, was

of

correspondent of the "Deutsch merely strategic. Japan from Allgemaine Zeitung," concerning that moment tried to accomplish the true state of affairs in North her purposes by bribing and cor- China goes to confirm other rupting the Anfu faction, and. heartening - messages, from

with Japanese money, this fac China's viewpoint, compelling the

tion became the government view that Japan has bitten off the day. more than she can chew. Wuhu,

"Squeeze" is difficult to eradi- which fell into Japanese hands cate from the Chinese system, long before Christmas, is to-day but the sticky Anfu fingers which a point at

which the defenders clung to part of the Japanese are hard pressed. Kalgan, miles loans to China aroused even behind the "fighting lines" is Chinese public opinion. Students seriously menaced by the Eighth in those

days constituted Route Army, Operations lasting voice of the people. Day after more than a month have failed to day they agitated against the secure for the Japanese a firm Anfu faction. The greatest of grip upon south Shantung. and these demonstrations occurred in the attack along the Tientsin-May, 1919. It was so impressive Pukow Railway from the south

the

is at a standstill. Daily, and ef-that, in spite of repressive mea- sures taken against it, the Anfu fectively, Chinese aircraft sub- Minister of Finance was compell- ject Japanese military positions ed to resign.

to bombardment. At all points, Even the warlords, or military there is an impression that Ja-governors, in the provinces be pan has overreached herself, ex-gan to protest against the man- tended her lines of communica-ner in which the Anfus were dis- tion beyond the safety point, and posing of the country. Their pro- at the point of stalemate unless tests eventually led to civil war. she is prepared to embark upon The result was that the Anfus heavier military commitments, were defeated, and control of the which she fears to do while the central government swung back Soviet remains ever-menacing at and forth among the contending her back door.

warlords till the Nationalists Even more encouraging is the swept them all off the scene, war- complete failure, thus far, of the lords and Anfus, Nationalist Japanese to achieve progress in China drove the warlords out of the political sphere in the occu-Peiping in 1927, and a capital re- pied territories. Japan worked dolent of the old regime, - before out her programme în the belief and after the Republic, was dis- that what was possible in "Man-placed by Nanking, #southern. chukuo” could be duplicated in capital."

has

can

China Proper. She reckoned pei- The Japanese effort to rein- ther with the different outlook state the Anfus in Peiping must of the Chinese people south · of be more galling to true Nation- the Great Wall, nor with the in-alists than any Chinese defents tensification of a nationalistic in the field. For Chinese nation- spirit which her own aggressive alism gained most of its early invasion assisted materially to impetus as opposition to the fla- create. In an effort to present grant corruption practiced by the an appearance of success, Ja-Anfu politicians. pan's

"Empire builders" have Those who know that ideas lin- been reduced to the shift of ex-ger even when machinery huming the old Anfu Clique of-been reduced to impotence ficials who functioned in pre- lend the Nationalists comfort. Kuomintang days. This is sad The good in... Nationalist China and bad enough in itself. But cannot be ploughed under by Ja- judging from such names as panese bayonets. Neither can the have been publicly revealed, Japanese produce a favourable those who have consented to the state of mind among 400,000,000 final betrayal of their country people by attempting to put include some of the worst of the China's clock back. Certainly not old officials.

by the exhumation of an fold Nearly all the leaders of the gang” whom the unlettered farm- so-called Peiping “provisional ter no less than the sophisticated government belonged at one time student had come to dub as trai- to the notorious Anfu clique ¡tors.