To Peking's Relief: New Lease of Life for Tuan Chi-jui's Regime: Impending Conferences as Arranged From Oce Own Peking, July 29.
With the departure of Marshal Chang Tso-lin. for Mukden, the Government has taken on a fresh Tease of life, and is preparing to ete the manifold labours which were interrupted by the Marshal Chang's descent on Tientsin on, May 30, and the troubles resultant upon the affair in Shanghai on the same day. Three months ago the capital was alive with activity; many new organs had been proposed to prop up the provisional regime while professing to carry on the work of the Reorganization Conference and pave the way for the Citizens Conference. Jobs were apparently waiting to be picked up; und the competition among the old Parliamentarians and the professional sinecurists was intense.
Then Marshal Chang dropped a bombshell on Peking, the effect of which was, almost as alarming to Peking officialdom as would have been the bombshell he promised the President during the last war. He said he would not allow the Three Eastern provinces to participate in the work of any of the new commissions, intimating that he was weary of the way in which Marshal Tuan had to propitiate party hangfers on in order to maintain his precarious provisional career in th highest office in the land, The time had arrived, in other word: for "cutting out the cackle and getting down to busines done, said Liang. Chang, however, still "did not care a fig for procedure, and i tering the adi Here was an awkward predicament for the "God of Wealth." Tuan Chi-jui himself was not opposed to Liang's ineoming—rather he welcomed it,—but he with the officials in their objection to the undermining of the regulations of the provisional administration, China's "new organic ews, and those of other persons, were the cause of many comings and goings between Peking and Tientsin, and the upshot was that General Yang Vu-ting, Chang's jolter ago, came up here. and had final talks with the Provisional Chief Executive and Liang Shih-yi. He left a week ago, after spending only three days in the city, and immediately after his return to Tientsin, Marshal Chang ended the great political speculation of the year by taking the Mukden, instead of the Peking, train.
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