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Chinese education with a great deal of European culture. He has an energetic group of Chinese men around him and has an American who was formerly Consul General at Mukden, as his chief purchasing agent. Chang Tso Lin is reputed to be very friendly to the Japanese under whom he served with his crops of bandits during the Russo-Japanese War. He has had enough experience with the Japanese not to be afraid of them in an economic way but he is very much afraid of them in a military way. Since the immigration question has come to a head between Japan and the United States, Japan is trying hard to consolidate the opinion of the continent of Asia in her favor and against us. Wu Pei Fu is distinctly anti-Japanese and, for that reason, Japan may be inclined to help Chang Tso Lin. Chang Tso Lin will certainly accept that help from the Japanese until such time as he gains the mastery in China or is defeated.

12. Wu Pei Fu is a man of much broader calibre than Chang Tso Lin. Ostensibly he supports the Peking government and wishes to see the constitution of the republic made the supreme authority in China. The president of China appears to be under Wu Pei Fu's control. In the war two years ago, Wu Pei Fu defeated Chang Tso

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