Three weeks have elapsed since the Chibli Army, with the moral. if not~ actual, support of the Manchurian Army, scored such a signal victory over the Anfuites. During this period, the President has, not without much haggling and apparent reluctance, accepted the resignation of the three Anfu Ministers and several other Anfu officials, dismissed a few divi sional commanders of the two frontier forces and dishonoured six Anfu M.P.'s, all of whom he has since ordered to be arrested and punished for having either plotted or taken part in the recent rebellion. By his order, the Frontier Defence Army and the Northwest Frontier Defence Army were supposed to have been disbanded; but later reports say that these troops, being considered well-trained, have been absorbed by the Chihli and Fengtien leaders into their own armies. As an act of grace and a hint of refusal to grant further concessions, the President, who has been severely condemned by the senior Chinese paper more for his craftiness than for his weakness, has issued a self-abnegation mandate in which he magnanimously assumes all blame upon himself, as an emperor in a similar situation would do in Bygone days. He has also published a Decree in which he ordered the dissolution of the Anfu club: another, accepting General Li Shun's denunciation of General Wang I-tang as a matter of fact by cashiering and proscribing the fter and by appointing Li Chief Peace Delegate for the North.
In spite of his known predileetion for Chen Shu-mo who had bee actually referred to the Parliament for consideration as Premier elect nominated by the President, he has been obliged to cancel his noniination apparently owing to outside force. On Monday, a Mandate was published at 6 pim., appointing General Chin Yun-peng to be Acting Premier who is understood to have assumed office on Tuesday (August 10).
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