February 17, 1925

His Excellency, Tuan Chi-jui
The Chief Executive's Office, Peking

DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your telegram of the first.
On leaving Canton on the thirteenth of November last, I
issued a Manifesto on the present political situation. In
the Manifesto I proposed to effect a peaceful settlement of
the national problems in a People's Conference, and to call
a Preliminary Conference to prepare for the People's Con-
ference. I arrived at Shanghai on the seventeenth; then
proceeded to Kobe on the twenty-first; and I left Kobe for
Tientsin on the thirtieth. On the way, I learned from the
papers that you had issued an Executive Mandate on No-
vember twenty-first calling a Reorganization Conference
in preparation for the People's Conference, but I did not
learn the details of your plan.

When I arrived at Tientsin on the fourth of December,
I had to stay in bed on account of my liver trouble. Then
Mr. Hsü Shih-ying paid me a bedside visit and showed to
me the full text of your telegram of the twenty-first and
also the Regulations concerning the Reorganization Con-
ference, which, he said, had. been approved at the Cabinet
Meeting. I told him frankly my opinions concerning the

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