ncellor, too, it would seem, has seen wisdom
and resigned.

How strange it all seems to Western eyes! A country, we should suppose,
where such things occur, is incapable of organisation. But it is certain
that we are wrong. Our notion is that everything must be done by
authority, and that unless authority is maintained there will be
anarchy. The Chinese notion is that authority is there to carry out what
the people recognise to be common sense and justice; if it does
otherwise, it must be resisted; and if it disappears life will still go
on--as it is going on now in the greater part of China--on the basis of
the traditional and essentially reasonable routine. Almost certainly the
students of the University had justice on their side; otherwise such
action would not be taken; and when they get justice they will be more
docile and orderly than our own undergraduates at home.

Another thing surprising to European observers is the apparent belief of
the Chinese in verbal remonstrance. Under the present regime officials
and public men are allowed the free use of the telegraph. The
consequence is that telegrams of advice, admonition, approval, blame,
fear, hope, doubt pour in daily to the Government from civil and
military governors, from members of Parliament and party leaders. In the
paper to-day, for example, is a telegram from the Governors of
seventeen provinces addressed to the National Assembly. It begins as
follows:

"To the President, the Cabinet, the Tsan Yi Yuan, the Chung Yi
Yuan, and the Press Association,--When the revolution took place
at Wuchang, the various societies and groups responded, and when
the Republic was inaugurated the troops raised among these
bodies were gradually disbanded. For fear that, being driven by
hunger, these disbanded soldiers would become a menace to the
place, the various societies and groups have established a
society at Shanghai called the Citizens' Progressive Society, to
promote the means of livelihood for the people, and the
advancement of society, and the establishment has been
registered in the offices of the Tutuhs of the provinces."

Then follows a statement of the "six dangers" to which the country is
exposed, an appeal to the Assembly to act more reasonably and
competently, and then the following peroration:

"The declarations of us, Yuan-hung and others, are still there,
our wounds have not yet been fully recovered,