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The article throws light on the note by Eugene Chen, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Canton Government. The present phantom government in Peking is a creation of a brace of medieval militarists and a bunch of Mandarin statesboys and states-coolies whose obvious purpose is to grab proceeds of whatever tariff doles and loans the U.S. and the other Powers may be willing to grant in order to maintain a status quo that conflicts with every vital interest of Nationalist China. Any payment of tariff moneys to Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, the two protestants must necessarily mean that the U.S. and the other interested Powers, through the machinery of the unified, British-controlled Chinese Maritime Customs will be paying national revenues collected throughout the whole of China