No matter what the name, the office means the same thing. The official called a Tuckwn or a Tuli or a Tnpay, is the Military Governor of a Province. He is in command of the troops, national and provincial, within that province. He is in theory, not subject to the will of the Province, but directly the Ministry of War and indirectly to the President of the Republic of China, He is a national official within the province whose duty is to maintain order. He is the successor of the Tartar General.
The real governor of the province, theory, is the Civil Governor. In practice, he is usually a figure-head, fat the beck and call of the Tuchun, who, having the military force, can, do very much as he pleases.
Theoretically, the Tyckun may Hot reefuit new troops or make war or do anything out of his routing, The Chihli Policy.
The Chibli Party is not a political organization, but a military grow" consisting principally of the pupils, in the Chinese sense, of President Tsao Kun. Yuan Shih-kai's Pet yang Military Party divided itself into two principal groups, the Anhui group headed by Tuan Chi and the Chihli group headed by Tsao Kun. In the Anfu War, the Chihli group gained dominance and Tuan Chih-ju retired to study Buddhism. Wu Pei-fu immediately emerged as the leading factor in the Chili Party in association with Feng Vu-hsiang. He and Feng split, however, and for a while there! was danger of trouble in the camp. For not only was the "Chrisflan" General dissatisfied with Wu Pei-fa's assumptions of pre-eminence, but Chi Hsieh-yuan, who was generally recognized as intellectually the Keonest of the Chihli Tuchun:, also contested first place with him. The possibility of making Tsao Kun president,' however, caused all Chihli members to join forees. One result of the election was the decision to follow Yuan Shih-kai's programme of unification by force [which finally brought on the present war. In the pursuit of such policy, it became increasingly clear that the anti-Chibli forces would mot have to contend with the vestiges of Tuan Chih-jui's party, but with Chang Tso.lin, Afd against him only Wu Pei-fu could ead.
The opposition to the Chihli Party may be divided into three groups: (1) Chang Tso-lin, who ean-not forget his defeat at the hands of Wu Pel-fa and. who seeks revenge; (2) Lu Yung-hsiang, who represents the remains of "Tua Chih-jai's active power, and (8) the [loose opposition centring" about Sun Yat-sen, These three groups have merged their interests in the resent wa
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