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- THE MILITARIST-EVIL"""

In the third of his varies of anticles in the Times, Mr. J.OF. Bland writes It is evident that. in the first place, the Military Govenors of the provinces (Tu- Chans) and their rabble armies, must

.go, for so long as the remain tɔ hatten without restraint apon all forms of productive industry, there can be no hope of better days for China.

The Ta-Chuo, as evolved out

JULY 14

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Ma. LLOYD GEORGE ON CLOSER

farmies, and the existing mer Power financial Connertuli käs made their disbandmant, indar ansativo foreign supervision, one UNION WITH AMERICA, ~

Mr. Lloyd George has wiliten of the conditions of the £5,000,000 on recently under discussion, a preface to a new edition of Dr. But all experianca goes to show Alexander Mackennel's work Homes-and. Haunts of the that in China something more than the anthority and prestige Pilgrim Fathers" which the of a bankers" agroamant will be Religions Tract Society has issued, needed to make disbandment on the occasion of the Mayflower complete and irrevocable. It will celebrations. Mr. Lloyd George of Great British and equire a united front and a clear-says-To-day, when the closer America has come to mean so cut policy on the part of the Con-union sortium Powers.

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of the chaos of the revolution, adfords an instructive example organization, aimed at by the attains a frost importance. It of the results of endeavouring to loan of 1913, proved clearly that would indeed be a tragedy if any apply the theories and principles the mandarins at Peking and in political exigencies promoted race the provinces will not consent to misunderstanding between people of self-government to a which is by nature and education the necessary effective super-whose bearts and consciances expenditure except have been attuned to the same unfitted to receive it These vision of predatory barons of the East, under very firm pressure; they endeavour by such a past, ax is mandarins all, are the very last will continue sa long as possible recorded in the story of this great

ana barbarian pilgrimage.“

FIGHTING SOCIETY. word in self-determination. Under to play

another and to

At the Central Criminal Court their despotic and rapacious against

their opportunities hands every prosince has become protect

The disband recently, before the Commoa a parfect paradise of Home Rule, of "squeeze,” within the benefit of clergy, atment programme submitted by Serjeant, George Willmore, 52, war within itself and with its Chu Chi-chien to the Shanghai labourer, and Alfred Summers, neighbours. Therefore the im-Peace Conference last year 39, carman, were_found_guilty mediate problem in China, affords conclusiva proof that the and sentenced to 18 months' im recognized as such by the Chinese Metropolitan officials, in collu-prisonment with Lard labour on themselves, is how to get rid of sion with the Tu-Chuna, hope to charge of attempting to break these independent satraps and to induce the foreign Powers to and enter a warehouse at Forest restore law and order under the advance vast sums of money (the Gate. There was a long list of central Government, together estimate is 200 millions of dollars) previous convictions against Loth with the ñscal machinery requir- in connexion with a vague scheme prisoners. Tas Common Serjeant, for a 30 per cent, reduction of the in passing sentence, said, “If ed for its support.

If China is to escape new perils country's military forces, to be son choose to fight socisty you of disorder and final disruption, carried out by the Ministry of must take the consequences. No make allowances for human the disbandment of the Tu-Chuns War in consultation with the pro- one is more ready than I am to nature and to treat it most) armies is a matter of imperativa vincial authorities, at their own necessity. Not only the Chinese time and in their own way.

That way madness lies. Irfleniently. Bot when I come Government, but the Chinese Army must be centralised and its China is to be saved, it is essencross a regular criminal who is numbers brought within the ial that no further loans of any doing nothing but fight a battle smallest limits compatible with kind be made to her except un-agsins: society, why then I have Watson's the maintenance of constitutedder conditions which shall rid the to protect society."

country, once and for all, of this CAPTAIN MATTHEWS IN SYDNEY. Unheralded, unmet, even by bis authority.

A solution of China's difficulties locust- like soldiery and replace

fellow aviators, Captain Mat- on these lines may seem at first military despotism by competent sight to be impracticable: bat in civil administration There custthews, whose bravery equals that reality it need not basa. Every-be no more independent subsidies of the Ross Smith crew, arrived any other in Sydney recently by the Java thing must depend, in the last by Japan or hy resort, upon the readiness of the Power, no further vielding to the steamer Roggeveen. Hero is a commercial Powers chiefly con-plea of Marshal Tuan and his man who came despite one cerned that is, Japan, Great friends, that failure to supply misfortune after another, to within fortitude and Britain, and the United States-them with fanda will entada 13 hours 05 of Australia, display. to work loyally together in arsing of their mutinous troopsing wonderful common self-denying policy of with the usual pillage and blood-determination, arriving in reconstruction. Thus regarded, shed. By the help of this argu-land of his adoption without one the attitude of the Japanese ment and the complaisance of band to welcome him. With bím Government becomes a detez-moneylenders, the Tu-Chana have is the companion in his flight. enabled to amase vast Sergeant Key, who was injured in the crash which finished the. arinant factor in the situation.been Bot, for reasons which will be wealth during the past five yearsight, and his wrecked machine, explained later on, I am con- A revolution would be far cheaper the landling of which he was vine.d that the resources of in the long run. diplomacy should prove sufficient

the

superintending when seen by an FAREE OF CIVIL WAR.

Evening News reporter. Captain o attain the end desired and to

But there will be no revolution, Matthews states that be is no secure a renewal of the Anglofor all China except the parasitic going to devote himself entirely Japanese Alliance under condi-officials concerned is only tool to commercial aviation.

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case, the problem is much simpler respondent in Hunan province than many of those with writing to the North Ching Herald | League of Nations bopes to deal From personal observation March 5), puts it, as far as the in Western Europe. Let us assume incline to the belief that the Chinese people are concerned it that the thing can be done, dis Liberal elements in Japan are is not a case of being for the bandment efected, and the pro- honestly anxious to adopt such a North or for the South, but simplyvincial administration

licy towards China as shall question which of the military ablished in the hands of the civil Cultivate her friendship and main-parties inflicts the greater degres authorities. Let us assume that tain her independence. Obriously of suffering." The Tu-Chuns are Parliamentary government can ikit should prove that the reac-well aware that public opinina is then be made more responsible when they and less corrupt. The detail work tionary military party in Japan all against them: is still stronger than the Liberal know that there is no more foreign of reorganization will then be- movement, if Japan should finally money to be had as the price of come possible reorganization of the country's finances, trans- decline to co-operate in an inter. their "loyalty." the force of civil national agreement for the re-war in China will he ended.port, administration, and system armies have thriven of justice-and it will...ce- organization of China, then the Their

booty, not

of conscientious battles quire years problem becomes insoluble, and on the unfortunate Chinese people and the last thing that the patriotic effort on the part of the must continue to suffer all the desire is reat fighting. If the Chinese themselves. But given chronic misrule Powers show that they mean peace within their borders and penalties of until, out of their disorders. a business, disbandment will be the assurance of disinterested

and only a catter of time

support from the friendly Powers. new international crisis arises.

Assuming, however, that the determination. Certain Tu-Chuns best elements in the nation

an in the more

remote provinces would no doubt come to the front. agreement, there is good reason as defy the Government for & There is. I believe, enough in- to believe that the very wealth time. but the fact remains that elligence, ability, and patriotismo To-Chuns have there can be no stomach in any available in the country to make amassed might be made insiru-Chinese rebellion without loot China a united and prosperotis nation wi hin a very short space mental in relegating them and in frost and rooney behind it.

Let the work of disbandment of time. their followers into private life.

the systematically in

Bat for the present, bonesty in! if once they were persuaded begin

Powers really northern provinces, where the the public service, which must be mean to suppers an effective millionaire Tu-Chune are likely the comer-stone of reorganiza Let each tion, ca oals he supplied from and honestly administered to prove amenable.

Fan-discharged soldier's pay be issued without. It involves insistence Government at Peking. tastic as the idea may appear to to him. in exchange for his rifle apon the proper and efficient plant you bave the Western mind. I have heard and equipment, by a responsible andit" of all official accounte many clear-headed Chiar do-representative of the Consortium, where foreign losos are involved, clare in all seriousness that most possessed of expert knowledge to which the Chinese Government been looking for. of the Tu-Chans would be quite Thereafter let the administrative pledged itself in, making the re- satisfied to have their troops dis-and executive authority in each organization loan of 1913, but

Civil which it has persistently evaded. Works smoothly banded for them, and paid off, by province be vested in a

萃门 effective the benevolent foreigner, so that Governor, supported by an sie Invistance they themselves might retire to quate police force, and let sach Audit Department with a foreign the dignified leisure of their well-small military forces as may be personnel need not conflict in any and no need of

China's sovereign' way with feathered nests. As Tang Shao- necessary be under. the direct yi, the leader of the Southera orders of the Central Govern-rights, nor involve any new de party, put it, when I saw him in ment. Let half a dozen provinces parture. It merely implies the January at Shanghai, "I think north of the Yaogtsze be thus extension of a system which has they would like to resign so as to dealt with, and the Central been in force for 70 years with have time to attend to their in-Government will have secured China's consent, and to her great vestments. It would, of course, the nucleus of a national revenue. advantage. Inasmuch as nemely be absurd to expect them to It may safely be said that once very available source of re-

China has abandon their safe and lucrativa Peking is in receipt of regular venus in profession so long as foreign loans revenues and assured of the been pledged for the service Stocks arrived. are forthcoming for the mainten-moral support of the Powers, the of innumerable loans, the Con ance of their armies (most of combative ardour of the southernsortium Powers are fully justif which are on paper) or for dismalcontents will melt away like ed in extending the principle of foreign supervision, in China's bandment schemes, such as that] snow upon the deserta

own interest, and to insist upon of the "reorganization "loan" of INTERNATIONAL JEALOUSIES. 1912, which yielded fat pickings Is it possible for the Conser its regular application: China' with their right to recruit new international jealousies and to more than sufficient for the Gor bandits at discretion, adopt a common policy, beneficial ernment's needs if ones they are The Chinese Government pro-to China and to the whole world a protected from the slim fingers fecsed to desire the disbandment trade?" Tiple will-1b6w” In any ti the oneist squeezázs.

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