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SIR ROBERT HO TUNG'S PROPOSAL The 'rking and Tiratsin Times in leading articly says:-

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of the merchants and gentry, but that they provincial authority, and be content to be GANDE, PRICE Us presented with sot page an, which, under the direct orders of the Central we outlined and, further, at the Covernment, purt merely or Customs Surtax Copiersnes he'd machina, and is'ated from trainistrative simultaneously, and its scope enlarged, in rights, with the readier acquisition arder that it might be able to make funds which such prerogatives allow. We recommendations to the respective Goyera bave to face facts, and net indulge in idle ments represented regarding the character fancies If the Tuchuas are to be persind. of the assistance that might most usefully ed to disband their troops, it will only be and prowly be rendered to a Constitu- on terms which will not translate them tional am Coalition Government, the for. from powers to puppets. But it is not mation of which would be one of the tasks impossible to suit their less unreasonable of the Chinese Conference,

demands and at the same, tiae contribute, Sir Robert Hotung is rather vague as to the fundamental needs of the nation.

the form of foreign initiative, and as What is the secret of Shang's outstanding to the part which the foreign Powers progresa aud prosperity 1 is a Military should play in the development of that Governor who has governed that province initiative It is not quite clear whether with such conspicuona serves, and while his ideu is that formal advice should be some of the Tuchuns are undoubtedly mea tendered to suitabe quarters, to be taken of infinitely low moral worth, many of have or left-incidentally involving the risk of them wou'd quite conceivably a rebuff which would illustrate rather too gehieved a similar distinction werk they so painfully the alarming erosion of foreign circumstanced. The wecret of Yeh Shih- infrente mud the growing irresponsibility shan's success lies not alone in the fact of the dominant political and military that his province is remote from the cliques or whether it should be accom.political centres of strife and dissension, panied by a warning that a refusal would bus that he has been proof against the entail certain consequenes such as we temptations of greater power; that he has have previously suggested. In view of hot dabbled in national polities, and has content to administer his ewn the deplorable divergence of view which been

He has not roated swollen must be deduced from the delay in the province, *presentation of the demands in connection armies because he has no external purpose with the Licheng outrage, it is perhaps to serve," and because he is not menaced to much to hope that the more drastic; by rival forces,

The Tuchun, as we have come to know of those ineasures will prve practicable But the very least that shit by due is him is partly at least the victim of formally to notify the Chinese that theircumstances, though not wholly so by

The toils, in which he i forrige Powers are tired of trying to do any means. business with a Government that cannot caught are, it is true, of his own creation. govern and is without power, and are. Most of them are ceaselessly preoccupied determined no longer to give official in the maintenance of their position tacit revogsition to the illegalities which have been perpetrated ever since the Republic. That is surely the smallest tribute we may pay to our self-respect, as well as an art of e'ementary wisdom We do not believe that this would be sufficient and that while it would be of some influence in the North it might even encourage intransigeance in the South, of the

against the challenge of their neighbours, and the allinners they form are impelled by the same impu's Few of then look longingly on higher positions. The first problem that must be solved is to limi

the few instances where complete sup ression is impracticable, the national us rations of the Militarists. If it be comes necessary to cottong hem a large measure ef provincial authority, it must be done. There is no more hopeless iden

though the definite enunciationment than their complete" eviction from power

in its national excrewyùces that the

principle that no secliopal whatever would be recogütred as thet they sovereign power of the State might checks Tuch system has proved the greatest such a tendency. When Canton: Hemande the withdrawal of the Peters recognitione. Because it is n, mushroom growth, of Peking, it does so partly with the hope Tuchunism is none the lese sturdy in that it might gain the coveted distinction which have struggled to life beneath the itself. It does not appear to as desirable, prematurely-born Republic. The National

or as enculated to contribute to the suc

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relation to the other and weaker förces

cessful issue of a Conference of Chinese Conference, if it is to be successful,, will interests, that the foreign Powers should be in the ultimate analysis the distribution have to recognise realition. Its task will have any active part in the discussions, of offers and power in the provinces as or even be present. We can play our part well as in the capital, and its maiu pro in the enlarged Customs Surtax Cunfer blend will be to induce the Tachuns to be of local The Chinese Conference, after all would content with some mensurr deal largely in the most portid details. authority, to lop off the tentacles that One of the valged correspondents whose restlessly search beyond the provincia letters we publish in this issue urges the basis for disbandment and for the boundaries, and provide the essential rigorous exclusion of the Tuchuus from foundation of operative public opinion. the National Conference. However de The provinces may never in our time be table. may be it is certain unt hilly

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that no Conference could suceed without able to unite solidly for or against the their participation, but that it would fail Central Government on any important if it did not make some splid concessions issue. But each prövites will find it not to their demands. It would be necessary beyond its capacity to exercise an ever. to square the power of the Tuchuus with increasing control, upon the provincial, the Constitution, or rather the raverse, authority, and build up from that step but it would not be an extremely difficult by step. task, nor would be it an entirely unfortuna compromise, s long as the principle of Provincial Autonomy carried the day and became inscribed in the Constitution. China is not going to sweep the Tuchun off the scene like pawns from a chess-board, nor is she going to.

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