Peking, July 6.
After several days of comparative quiet the populace in Peking is again in a panic. The Anfu Club, they say, has actually fallen, Little' Hsu is removed from all offices, the National Defence Army is taken away from Tuan Chi-jui and is incorporated in the regular army, the Anfu Ministers are removed, and now Little Hsu, who never dozes when his enemies are busy, is going to make a demonstration with the 9th and 15th Divisions, who will probably loot the town. There is the usual exodus of small officials, the usual closing of shops at dusk and in all public places there is a feeling of tense expectancy. The people are vastly elated over the fact that their prophecy about the weather has apparently been fulfilled. The mandate which made Hsu Shu-tseng a Chiangchun, a Marshal, and which incidentally removed him from all offices, is said to have been signed on the after noon of the 4th. An hour later came the first rain in many weeks and it rained furiously. No one deli however, that this is the end, and it is really hard to believe that the A ites, weak as their position is, are giving up so easily. The most important feature of the situation is that Chang Tso-lin. contrary to the expectations of many, is keeping faith with Wu Pei-fu and is eschewing compromise, Chou Shu-mou's appointment to the Premiership has been submitted to parliament and the appointments of Chou Tze-chi to the Ministry of Finance, and of Yeh Kung-chou to the Ministry of Communications will follow shortly. It is not anticipated that. if the local Parliament can raise a quorum, it will have the temerity to reject these appointuients, but no one expects that there will be a quorum. Scores of the Anfu members have taken flight and the remainder shun the unpleasant duty of voting themselves out of business. If there is. no parliamentary endorsement of the new appointments, it will be several weeks before the President can assume that Parliamient is in fault and start the machinery of new Cabinet without the approval of the legislators.
The question of dissolving the two parliaments, which is a part of Wu Pei-fu's programme, has not! Yet been seriously discussed in the President's palace and no_action will be taken until the new Cabinet is functioning. If Tuan and Lisa permit themselves to be deprived of the National Defence Army without creating a disturbance, the parliamentarians, who are siruply their dependents, will certainly create no opposition when the time comes for their dismissal. In fact
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