Currency Reform and Foreign Interference: The Captured Shensi Missionary; Japan's Policy Towards China: Experiments in Self-Governing During the last month or so, the Chinese Press has devoted most of its attention to the doings and bickerings of the three Inspector-Generals, Chang Tso-lin of Manchuria, Tsao Kun of Chihli, and Wang Chan-yuan of Hupeh, at Peking. The reconstruction of the Cabinet has also been a subject that filled much of its comment columns. Both the President and the Premier have evidently had to bow their heads to these three super-tuchuns whose word has practically the same effect as law.
Although the Cabinet has been partially reconstructed, it is still uncertain as to who will eventually take up the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Education in the Cabinet. The departure of Generals Tsao Kun, Wang Chan-yuan and Chang Tso-lin from the capital, for their respective posts, may be accepted, as a token that a division of spoils has been made equitably and to their own entire satisfaction. It is understood that Chang Tso-lin has been entrusted with the task of subjugating Outer Mongolia, and, in return for this yet to be rendered service, he has been made High Commissioner and Generalissimo of Mongolia and Siugkiang and empowered to control the military authorities in the three new territories, namely, Jehol, Suiyuan and Chahar, in addition to a hugo monetary—consideration. Tsao Kun is endowed with the highest military power over three additional provinces, that is, he becomes the Super-Tuchun of Chihli, Honan, Shantung, (which he originally controlled), Shansi, Shensi and Kansu; while Wang Chan-yuan is to have undisputed sway throughout the Yangtze regions, besides being commissioned to act on half of Peking in the matter of effecting a rapprochement between Yunnan, Szechuen, Hunan and Kueichow and the North. Ly Yung-ting of Kuangsi is expected to harass, if not attack, Kuangtung until the latter gives in or until Peking is ready to force it to surrender.
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