The Archive · 1912

GENERAL CHANG'S PLANS

Peking, Aug. 21.

It is rather doubtful whether the National Council can secure the majority necessary in order to, impeach the whole Cabinet, as it threatens to do if it does not receive satisfactory reply to; day from the Government with regard the recent executions. The Kunghotang unconditionally takes the Government's part. In the meantime it has become semiofficially known that General Chang-Cheng-wu had worked out detailed plan of a counter-revolution, which it was intended to start! simultaneously in Wuchang, Tientein, Peking and Nanking. The plan is said to have included the assassination of both President

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