Peking, May 16.
The overhauling of the Cabinet has come at last and has been confirmed by presidential mandate. The high authorities and their various organs announce this with much satisfaction, as though a solution to a grave problem had been reached, and seem to expect the populace to rejoice. "They therefore profess great irritation at the prompt verdict rendered by the majority of the Chinese papers, by foreigners generally and by the Chinese population of Peking at large. It is simply taken for granted in all quarters that the Japanese have regained control of the Government, that Chang Chih-tan and his friends, who have been advocating a return to Japanese patronage, have won a decided victory and that Japanese money is in sight.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.