Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-24
SAYS WAR is OVER

Shanghai. Aug. 23.--Sun Vat Sen.
leader of the South China faction, an
nounced Thursday that peace reigns
between the north and south and that
the war is ended.
Sun based his statement on the re-
suit of the recent interfactional con-
ference there, but withheld details OF
these negotiations.
{ Speaking to a delegation of old mem
Z bers of the republican parliament, he
urged them to go to Picking without de-
lay and resume their seats in the re-
: vived legislative body. Their duty. he
i. declared. was TO thresh out the prob
lens of constitutienalist government on
the floor OF parliament.
The delegation, composed Of Sun Vat
Senfs most ardent followers, but rep
resentative of all the provinces of the
: north and south. is said, to have been
waiting here for their leaders personal
Instructions before proceeding to Pc
king. ay
The southern chieftnin told them that
il was not his business TO recommend
q course of action nor Eto discuss or
suggest the personnel of a new cab
met for China or for other government
. appointments. . He fatty declined to
make any such recommendations.
" III sdCCUIuduCc Will Suu 3 duNlCS, lDt
parliamentarians are arranging to so
TO Picking Immediately.
Life of Ups and Downs
The remarkable p%aradoxes of Chi
nese political life never have been more
startlingly exempiified than in the ups
and downs of Sun Vat Sen.
{ Practically an exile from his country,
he entered the revolution of 1912 that
:. upset the Manchu throne. Then he
returned and was elected president of
!. the new republic. In 1917, after his
retirement from office, Yuan Shih Kai,
his successor, aimed at a dictatorship,
possibly a revival of the monarchial
regime, but was forced from office
and decided to~have the reins of office
! taken up by Ii Yuan Hung. The mill
tarists dissolved the constitutional par
lament, Ii Yuan Hung fled from Pc
king and Sun summoned the constitu-
: tionalists TO meet at Canton. There
is a "rumor" that parliament con-
vened again and Sun was elected a
Z president.
Early this year, the militarists at
Picking were ousted by WI Pei Flu, and
LII Yuan Hung was again installed in
: the presidential palace. Almost stimuli
taneously opposition to Sun developed
at Canton Chen Chung Ming drove
him from office and he fled for his life
to Whampoa, subsequently arriving on
his gunboat, Wing Flung, in Canton
harbor. where he lay bottled up under
the shadow Of the foreign d~estroyers
at anchor there. Again his life was
!, menaced and he fled aboard a British
gunboat to Hongkong, whence he took
passage on the liner Empress Of Rus
STA for Shanghai.
He arrived at Shanghai apparently
homeless, certainly without any office
of any kind. and accompanied by the
statements from official circles of Can
ton and Picking that his day was done,
his race VOL and his course of leader
ship at an end.
Advised Leaders
In the short time he has been there
however he has leaped again to the
forefront. directing negotiations with
q representatives of every faction II
China, besides laying policies to Presi,
dent L Yuan Hung. stating terms tc
WI Pei Flu, military leader Of the
north, and bringing Chang Tso Lin
"uncrowned king of Manchuris," bach
into the political field as a possible
ally of WI Pei Flu, his recent con
queror.
Only Thursday. President Ii sait
that he was willing TO resign in Suns
favor, if parliament approved such &C
ton.
Now Sun announces that the north
and south are at peace. Apparently
he has won his case.
p On August Is it was announced that
two representatives of Sun would &c
TO Picking TO negotiate with President
10. Sun said he would proceed to
Picking himself when circumstance
warranted il.
On August 81 Sun received a tele-
asam from WI Pei Flu, in which the
powerful military leader Endorsed Suns
recent manifesto and pledged his sup
port to Sun. This move By WI at once