New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-16
US. Break With
Picking l. Urged
BY SUN Yat-Sen
President of South China
Republic Says Capital
Regime Is lettering and
Does NOT Rule Country
Nations Life Threatened
Tells of Plans TO Unite All
Provinces and Get Aid
TO Develop Resources
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WASHINGTON, May 15.-The mani
festo of Sun Yat-sen, president Of the
Chinese Constitutionalist government
issued to the foreign governments on
his assumption of Office, has been COM
municated TO the State Department
A copy of the manifesto was given out
here tonight by Ma 500, representa-
tive Of the South China Republic, who
was directed by Wa Ting-fang, former
Chinese Minister here, to present the
manifesto to the department.
The manifesto pictures the govern
ment at Peking as having sost the
last vestige of control over the prov
inces and as crumbling to pieces, while
the existence of China as nation Is
in jeopardy. DR.. Sun Yat-Sen says that
as the President of the Republic ne
will endeavor to unite all the prov
inces and territories under one pro-
gressive and enlightened government.
He appeals to the United States and
other governments to withdraw recog-
Text of the Appeal
The text of the manifesto follows:
During the last four years the pa
triots of China have been waging war
against the militarists and traitors of
the country for the cause OF consti--
tutional government and for national
existence itself 1t has not been a
war between the north and south of
China, but struggle between militia
rism and democracy, between treason
and patriotism. That the people in
the north are sympathetic to the pur-
poses and aims of the south has been
demonstrated by the fact that they have
spontaneously organized demonstra-
tions and boycotts for the same pur-
poses and aims.
"The government at Peking has lost
the last vestige of it's control over
the provinces. The military satraps
are plundering the people and running
the country. These militarists wage
war among themselves in the struggle
for power. One of them has lately
gone to the extent of treacherously
leaguing himself with the Russian
monarchists and aiding and abetting
them to attack and capture Urga.
while the Picking government is
fast crumbling from sheer hollowness.
foreign domination tends to spread
from north to south The existence Of
the unconstitutional dissolution of the
National Assembly in June 1917. no de
jure government has existed IN PeKing.
New election laws may have been made
and new national assemblies may have
been elected, but they all lack legal
basis. Confirmation of this view has
come from an unexpected quarter
from Hsu Shih-chang himself, when
he issued the order in October last for
the holding of a general election based
not on the new election law which is
the basis Of his own title but on the
old election law, which is incompatible
with his claim to the Presidency. The
extraordinary spectacle is thus pre-
scented of the self-styled President of
the Republic confessing that he has no
lgal right to that title. Thus, in this
hour of crisis, when the national exist
ence itself is imperiled, there is in
Peking no government which is legally
constituted or able to discharge the
functions of government.
Elected by Assembly,
Under these circumstances the
National Assembly is the only body of
legally elected representatives of all
the provinces and territories Of the
country, has established a formal
government and has elected me to be
founder of the republic, cannot af~
ford to see her in danger without
making an effort to save her. Having
been summoned once before in 1911
to the Presidency, from which I re-
signed after a short tenure, in order.
as / thought, to bring about unity to
the country, intend now to do all in
my power to discharge those duties
and functions honestly, faithfully and
to the satisfaction of my fellow
citizens.
CAS- the National Assembly which
has elected me represents the whole