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9.  In the three provinces of Manchuria, Chang Tso Lin is entirely dominant.  He does not acknowledge in any way the supremacy of the Peking government.  Wu Pei Fu controls the central part of China while Tang Chi Yao and Sun Yat Sen control the southern part.  There are many little semi-independent chiefs.  Under these conditions the central government has no power to enforce treaty stipulations and the hatred of the Chinese for everything foreign is asserting itself more and more.  The foreigners are being squeezed out when it is possible in an economic and personal way, wherever it can be accomplished without force.  They remember the Boxer chastisement and do not want to bring another thing like that down on themselves.  The bulk of the people have no interest in politics except those relating to the internal condition of their families and their commercial relationship with their neighbors.  They look upon the upper political organizations as being merely means of extracting money from them.  So long as they are not mulcted to too great an extent, they remain quiet and docile but whenever they consider themselves wronged, very serious complications ensue which invariably lead to a change in political masters.  Their method of handling things is just the opposite of ours.  They care nothing

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