From Ovn Own Coneeseowmunts Poking, June 4.
Tt would be interesting to- know just how many times Sun Pao-chi has tried to resign the Premiership. Tt seems to be as engrossing a hobby of his as mahjongg; but whereas hi friends take him seriously at th game that Confucius was supposed to play, they refuse to pay him the same compliment when it comes to resignation of the second most responsible office in the land.
That the Premier is serious himself there is not the slightest doubt. He was beckoned out of the calm backwater of his Customs appointment much against his inclination: and his disgust with the turbulent waters of office intensifies the deeper he gets into them. And as the Miaater of Finanes, Wang Kok wsn't extended much help, hi Tot is altogether unenviable, Daring the last week the capital has been full of rumours and reports that he had resigned again, The capital has also been full of counter-rumours and counter-re~ ports that he had done nothing of the sort. They fought each other in the local papers, and now it has been established beyond a peradventure that after a gallant effort to extricate himself from the cares of the Premiership, Mr. Sun has again resigned himself to the withdrawal of his resignation, The Premier has more worries than probably any other Premier in any other country, On one side he has the militarists to contend with; fon the other, the politicians, And what militarists, what politicians! When ti militarists ave not angry, the while other hi in running the nation's affairs with out taking him into consideration, the Tientsin negotiations on the German bonds question for example.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.