Oct. 16.
Tu Hupeh revolution has brought forth no more startling event, excepting of course the whole move= ment in itself, than the recall of Yuan Shih-kai. Anxiety in Peking must be great indeed when it can overcome the rooted hostility towards Yuan of the Prince Regent and, we may believe, of the Empress Dowager. There can be no more fiction of the ex-Grand Councillor having at last recovered from his supposed indisposition. The plain fact is that the Government has bitter need of him, and the Imperial Edict appointing him to the comis|mand of the disaffected provinces reads clearly as a counsel of desperaisation. Tt is not merely a question of choosing powerful commanders—for Chuo Erh-feng, who yields the Viceroyalty of Szechuan to Tsen Chun-swan, should satisfy require ments on that score—but of the men whom the Imperialist troops are Tikehwte ae ° AS virtual initiator
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