The ex-Ministers are urging the Throne to relieve them of their duties, and advocate giving the Tszechengyaan complots control Thus it is evident that the pi of the Throne resent the abject surrender of power and foresee serious complications from the new forces arising and demanding power, namely, Yuan Shih-kai's party, the revolutionaries, the Tszechengyuan and the soldiers.
None of these apparently trusts the others, and with the Throne surrendering piecemeal all privileges, the result is chaos.
Hope turns towards Yuan, bat still he declines the Premiership.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.