And now the situation has chang-over night. Chang Shou-tseng has again turned his coat. Just whom he is supporting or what he} now represents no one is ready to} say, but the Tsao Kun folk are already denouncing him. Wu Ching-lien, the leader of the lower house in Parliament, is considered almost as doubtful a supporter of Tsao} Kun's as the Premier, and while! there are some well known agents of Tsao Jui in the Cabinet, it is said that very few of them are acceptable to Tsao Kun personally. There are many persons here who anticipate that Tsao Kun, afraid of trouble into which his __brother's machinations may lead. him, particularly afraid of the inevitable rupture with Wu Pei-fu, is on the point of disowning Tsao Jui and his! whole following. It was anticipat-! ed that the so-called Christian} party, as an element in the Tsao! Jui coalition, would have at least) cne if not two prominent posts in the Cabinet. It.is unlikely now! that it will have any. Dr. W. Yen appeared on the first slate together with Dr. C. T. Wang! but was subsequently dropped. It! was at first thought that Dr. Wang
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