Foreign attention is focussed upon the military upshot of the conference. The mast striking achievement so far has been the defiance of Governor Yen Hsi-shan's very belligerent communication to Chang Tso-lin advising him to retire to Muk-iden, Fengtien's reply was to retire Chang Tso-lin into the position of a Chief Executive, a position that would seem to have put him forever out of the running for the reassumption of his former office in Manchuria, "This is a point that appears so far to have escaped political comment; but it has not been overlooked by aspirants high office in. the Mukden faction and much discussion is going on behind the scenes concerning Chang Tsoclin's possible successor in Manchuria, From the viewpoint of seniority one would think that. the mantle of authority over the Three Eastern Provinces would fall on Wu Chun-sheng, the bluff old Tupan of Heilungkiang. Other possibilities fare Yang Yucting and the "Youn; General," Chang Fsueh-liang. Yang} 'Yucting' enjoys a decided advantage in his friendship with the Japanese, but his advice was disregarded in the recent conference. It is said that "Chang Tso-lin himself entertains the hope that he will retain the power to make his old position fu Manchuria hereditary, in which ease Chang Hsueh-liang would carry on the family tradition.
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