THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
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The President's Office.
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MANIFESTO TO FOREIGN POWERS.
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During the last four years the patriots of China have been waging a war against the militarists and traitors of the country for the cause of constitutional government
It has been no war bet- and for national existence itself. ween the North and South of China, but a struggle between militarism and democracy, between treason and patriotism. That the people in the North are sympathetic to the purposes and aims of the South has been demonstrated by the fact that they have spontaneously organised demonstrations and boycotts for the same purposes and aims.
The Government at Peking has lost the last vestige of its control over the provinces, even those nominally within its jurisdiction, where the military satraps are plundering
It has even to take the people and ruining the country. order from them. These militarists wage war
among
One of them has themselves in the struggle for power. lately gone to the extent of traitrously leaguing himself with Russian monarchists and aiding and abetting them to While the Peking Government is attack and capture Urga. fast crumbling from sheer hollowness, foreign domination threatens to spread from the North to the South. existence of China as a nation is in jeopardy.
The
Since the unconstitutional dissolution of the National Assembly in June 1917, no de jure government has existed in Peking. New election laws may have been made and new National Assemblies may have been elected but they all
Confirmation of this view has come from lack legal basis.
an unexpected quarter, from Hsu Shihcheng himself, when he issued an order in October last for the holding of a
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