Peking, Feb. 29.
The Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Lu Cheng-hsiang, who resigned from his office so shortly after his return from Paris and within a very few days after his arrival in Peking, has been done some injustice by those who attribute his resignation and his departure from the capital timidity. It has been intimated in the Chinese press that he looked forward to having to take part in the direct negotiations with the Japanese and that he shirked the task and fled from it, A very different story of the events leading to his resignation is now current in the capital.
With the exception of Mr.
and of Premier Chin, who exereises no control whatever over his cabinet, it is a solid Anfu organization. Mr, Lu had no sooner returned to Peking than the high officials who shape the policies of the Anfu Club decided to get him out of the cabinet and it is freely asserted now that Vice-Minister Chen Lu, who is not openly associated with the Anfuites, collaborated with them in making Mr. Lu's position an unconsfortable one.
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