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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 220, 1923.

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RESTORATION" OF CHINA

SUPPRESSING TUCHUN "HULE,

"CONDITIONS OF FOREIGN

ASSISTANCE.

Brigadier General C. D. Brue, in the course of a letter to The Times, states: The idea of foreille interference in cons

As it is apparent that you cannot con- tral these rebels against the Central Authority, we intend to hold each in- |dividual Tuchni responsible for the lives and the safety of our national, as woll as for any interference with free trade and travel in his province. We will'stand behind you, with forte, if necessary, using adjacent waterways or existing railways where" convenient to enable you to deal according to Chinese customs with any of these Tuchans. Refuge from justion

FOREIGN-ASSISTŁYCH »

neetion with Chinese affairs which has by means of a safe harbour for themselves and their stolen fortunes in ang "Treaty- been suggested and which is still held by! Part" will be denied to them. If dis some foreigners is if not impossible, į covered taking refuge in any "Trenty MARTELL & CO.practicable even for any combined force Port these men, as well as their re latives, will be handed over to the Chinese force which England, America, and Japan athorities to bo dealt with. could of would supply. It in futile ta suppose that 400,000,000 peuply can fix]

We are prepared to help you take greż governed against their will. But it is the rifles and equipment of the Tuchuns' possible and practicable to say to China, so-called armies, less a certain proportion

considered by you temporarily necessary: "We intended to protect our "foreign" e "the purpose of being used to maintain. treaty rights by every means in curaw and order in each province; also to power, but we will abo do our best to ensure that the rifles are, disposed of, aid, you to free your infortunate people anditt), and; what is considered by us when taken away from the soldier- From the incubirs of the Tuchuris, whom still more important in the interests of it is quite plain to the world your Central law and order, to prevent "the importa Government is utterly incapable of con- tion of any more arms into China in

future, except for the Governorat. trolling."

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It may be said, and it is partly true, that so far as China bas any Government today it is that of the Tuchuttus," which is usually and wrongly deserted as #militaris." The so-called armies of the Tucbuos are certainly the curse of the country, but in no wense but one, that of owning' at intervals a rifle, an uni formi, are the majority of these men soldiers, Ning tenths of them are coolies, bandits, or Brigands dressed up to re pregent soldiers. They have never fought, nor ever will fight, niger, their own officers, a real battle. They are bought and sold as may be necessary by the various commanders or leader in turn. They deance and ran away, They murder and loot. But they do not fight: as we mean fighting now-a-days. Ther is, therefore, no reason whatever why they cannot be suppressed. "

ASIATIC NATIONS ARE NOT REPUBLICAN,

If necessary, we are ready to provide the money for productive enterprise, in order to hasten the reassimilation to civil life of the Tuchms' disarmed adherents There is ample scope for such work in the form of increased railway and road con struction, and of-canal and Blood re clamation schemes. We are also prepar ed. if considered advisable, to provide the money to ensure one month's dis charge gratuity being paid to each man. up to a stipulated number, on the hand ing in uf bis rife and equipment. But it should be noted that the reabsorption of a population of over 400,000,000 should into agricultural life of 1,000,000 men out in comparatively simple matter. After the Great War not less than 5,000,000 out of a population of 42,000,000 were absorbed into civil life in Great Britain alone.

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The suppression of Tuchun rule would in a few years repay many times over! the amount expended. For the submis. sion of the Tuchnas to the Central autho rity and for the carrying out of all Troaty obligations, we are prepared to allow two years, after which period if submission has not been made, we will give any assistance required to bring about such submission.

Commission, including financial experts. assembled at Peking by England, America, and Japan, coull do much to zave China from the foes within. her gates,

The Chinese, next to the British, are, perhaps, the most truly deniceratic nation in the world Like the British. they have enjoyed Monarchical Govern- ment for centuries past. In spite of idealistic theorists, it has yet to be proved

PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION. that any Asiatic nation can flourish as a

Such, in barest outline. is a possible: republic If history counts with these same theorists they may, perhaps, amit scheme for solving China's present prok that up to the resent no Asiatic nationem ef disintegration. An International ever has. Are the Chinese an exception Is it conceivable that a race which for untold centuries has dourished under a semi-divine monarchy can all in a moment imbibe and digest the principles, or even the idea of a modern republic? Politically inarticulate the Chinese have ever heen. Entirely unrepresented in the actual Government of their country, they have on the other hand, always been necustom ed to govern themselves in all affairs appertaining to family and village life,

How ran they understand the political shilbe'eths or take in hand and work the intimate business of a modern re- public? The now defunct literary exa mination once the pride of China al cpen to men of any rank and every class, used to provide the necessary recruits for the national governments! machinery body, be it said to its credit which kept China a homogeneous and pence loving nation. No better leni government ever existed to suit the needs of any race than the old provincia Civil Government, Now all gone, overwhelmed by the

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If nothing is done, the disintegration of China by the Tochuns from within will soon be an accomplished fact. There is possibility of the unification, of illa warring South with antagonistic North: of the remote interior with the more recensible const and river proviners. But this possibility cannot survive many more years of Tuchan misrule

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Ex-Service men at Swansea are protest- best suit the present condition of the ing against the inclusion on the tablets country. But it is for the Chinese to giving the names of over 2,000 fallen on evolve their own Government and for the Swansea wat memorial's "Court of Chefoo "Foreign" Powers chielly concerned to Memory" of certain names of living Dairen aid them in establishing it, and when aldermen, councillors, and officials who Hailar established, to recognise and to help to took a prominent part in erecting, the uphold it by any and every means in war memorial. On August 1st ex-Service their power, subject to due respect yinen passed a resolution threatening that China of their Treaty rights and privunless the names of the living are quickly leges. Under these rights the Foreign removed they will cast the offending Powers would be justified in speaking to tablets into the sea. A meeting of the the representative, of China something Swansen War Memorial Committee is to after this manuer:-

he convened to consider the matter.

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that your guarantee is good," we propose to help you to police both railways and waterways also if and when necessary the termini of the former

The next step is for you to suppress the Tuchums, who are to all intents and pur pasos rebels against the Central Govern- ment. The Tuchung, armies are not soldiers enlisted for the defence of China, but, in most cases, bandits in disguise who live upon the defenceless Chinese farmers and traders. The Tuchun them- sever appropriate most of the earnings of the railways to pay their mutinoue! adborents. They have also made away with portions of the Government "Balt Revenue in direct defianes of Treaty rights. This revenue, as they are per- feetly aware, is already hypothecated in repayment of obligations incurred by the Central Government The Tuchuns are withholding from the latter funils which shou'd be available for the Government. of the country..

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