CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 50, 17 July 1912, Page 5

CHINESE REPUBLIC.

HOPELESSLY INSOLVENT.

SLACK ADMINISTRATION,

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Sydney, July 10.

The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in China writes that the revolution has let loose such a variety of ideas about the meaning of the Republican system that it seems ns if nothing short of a miracle would succeed in placing the country on its feet, and permit its taking advantage of the chance to become a modern, progressive and enligktened State. The half-educated idealists who brought destruction find that they have no creative capacity for the work that the aftermath of the revolution entails. Those who put faith in Yuan-Shih-Kai and Tang-Shao-Yi discovered that they were depending on broken reeds. Neither was able to control the element within his reach, much less the provinces. The only thing that has enabled the country to pull through so far was the collossal ignorance of the people, the great bulk of whom know little or nothing of the political upheaval. The sturdy, thinking men who made the Republic possible withdrew immediately Yuan-Shih-Kai and Tang-Shno-Yi came into power. Those attempting to run the Government are half baked students, fresh from school, without an atom of experience.