CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 207

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kávating by gradual stages: 1. diobatorial, 3. tutelary, 3,

constitutionai. The prmatura mutbreak at "ughang, howOTO",

and the ensuing uninaked for siberonse to Republican prin-

niples on the part of the whole nation upset all maloula-

tions. Methods of lavernment had at once to be extœaparizei,

and Yuman instrumenta af loverannt on the spot imediat oly

to be utilised. "he upahet ha! boon marnentration of pover

in the hands of officials of the old regina, whona professed

republitaniam was a nero olask for personal subition, iratead

of, as was intended, in the hands of trint ann truly fabued

with dasodatie idealn » most of whom had in the proness of

upheav«l boom alther killan in battle or otherwino Alspować.

"hun the course of the rev-lution took might be nam) =

pared to that of a rock rolling down a anuntairalie ieaving

destruction in its wake and incapable of being shani od until

it one to rest on level groundi. Vino bih k'ná not hin

present day initators being responsible for the resulting

absos it was his duty to struggle an until firat principles

hai bear restored.

I begged of him to anderyour t- att xin this and without

wire bloodshed or unrest, to which the reply was that, unles

attaakai, ha did not intend to resume fighting. No informa—

tion was voluntnerei na to altœnative methods.

From that we passed on to the mumstiar of how his pro-

pased disbandmant af troops mas to be affected, and on my

expressing doubts if man houset, fed, alothed and paid

aither in cash or laht

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and, in the case of the Liang Fueng

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