Persons who have the qualifications of leaders will be used as tools to fight for the self-aggrandizement of those who use them.  I do not wish to mention names, but I can safely predict that more than ten different parties will arise at the psychological moment.  Men who will never be satisfied until they become president, and those who know they cannot get the presidency but who are unwilling to serve others, will come out one after another.  Confusion and disturbance will follow with great rapidity.  Then foreign countries which have entertained wild ambitions, availing themselves of the distressful situation in China, will stir up ill-feelings among these parties and so increase the disturbances.  When the proper time comes, various countries, unwilling to let a single country enjoy the privilege of controlling China, will resort to armed intervention.  In consequence the eastern problem will end in a rupture of the international peace.  Whether China will be turned at that time into a battleground for the Chinese people or for the foreign Powers I cannot tell you.  It is too dreadful to think of the future which is enshrouded in a veil of mystery.  However, I can tell you that the result of this awful turmoil will be either the slicing of China like a melon or the suppression of internal trouble with foreign assistance which will lead to dismemberment.  As to the second result some explanation is necessary.  After foreign countries have helped us to suppress internal disturbances, they will select a man of the type of Li Wang of Korea, who betrayed his country to Japan, and make him Emperor of China.  Whether this man will be the deposed emperor or a member of the Imperial family or the leader of the rebel party, remains to be seen.  In any event he will be a figurehead in whose hand will not be vested political, financial and military power, which will be controlled by foreigners.  All the valuable mines, various kinds of industries and our abundant natural resources will likewise be developed by others.  China will thus disappear as a nation.

In selecting a man of the Li Wang type, the aforesaid foreign countries will desire merely to facilitate the acquisition of China’s territory.  But there can be easily found such a man who bears remarkable resemblance to Li Wang, and who will be willing to make a treaty with the foreigners whereby he unpatriotically sells his country in exchange for a throne which he can never obtain or keep without outside assistance.  His procedure will be something like this:  He will make an alliance with a foreign nation by which the latter will be given the power to carry on foreign relations on behalf of his country.  In the eyes of foreigners, China will have been destroyed, but the people will continue deceived and made to believe that their country is still in existence.  This is the first step.  The second step will be to imitate the example of Korea and make a treaty with a certain power, whereby China is annexed and the