Just as it was assumed last week, when the three Tuchuns were in favour of retaining the old Cabinet and were prepared to. return to their respective strongholds, that no money was in sight and that tentative efforts on the part of various would-be office holders to secure Japanese money had failed, so it is now assumed, since the prime mover in all the intrigue against the more respectable element in the old Cabinet has been made Minister of Communications and since Li Shih-wei, ex-Governor of the Bank of China, who enjoys close and confidential relations with the most prominent Japanese financiers, has gone into the Ministry of Finance, that Japanese money in liberal quantities is again promised.
It is this assumption which is said to annoy the Government and which is causing the members of the new Cabinet some anxiety even before they have taken up their portfolios. The affair of last summer, when Wu Pei-fu moved on a wave of popular support to eliminate Japanese influence from government] affairs, is by no means forgotten and when the public takes it for granted that the new regime is about to occupy the position from which the Anfuites were driven last year, it makes the prospective incumbents rather anxious.
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