The report that ex-president Ts Kun had died is officially denied today a: the headquarters of the Chief Executive. There appears 12 be no doubt, however, that Mar-chal Tsao is in a bad way, aid treatment meted out to him since: the defeat of the Chibli forces mutter which foreigners cannot understand. It is only a few months since Marshal Tsao was accepted ax President without demur by the majority of the Chinese People. Yet he iz being treated as 'a criminal, and there ix reason to that he is likely to succumb to the rigours of his confinement. may be armmed that if the Chibli forces had been victorious Marshal Tsao to-day would be resolving the homage of most of his countrymen, and without enter ing into the question of merit or Jerime on the part of the former President, foreigners express wonder at the treatment given to a man who waz de facto President, Particularly is this surprise ex-Pressed "in view of the poneraas freemen: given. by Marshal Teao in former times to beaten fuer—Renterse Pacific Service,
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