Feb. 25.
Tra Tucnun or Honay.
With regard to the decision of the Premier-to appoint another man to take the place of Chao Ti as Tuchun of Honan, it is now understood that mainly thanks to the intercession by Tsao Kun, Tuchun of Chihli, Premier Chin Yun-peng has consented to a compromise by merely appointing Mr. Wang Yingchuan, Chief Secretary of the Parliament, to be Civil Governor of that province, leaving the Tuchunship to be held by Chao Ti. General, Wu Kuang-hsin, Com mander-in-Chief of the northern forces in the upper reaches of the Yangtze, now denies that he was ever entrusted with the task of ousting Chao Ti from Honan and filling up the vacancy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.