Most of those on the Chihli.side went into the alleged Chili alliance: with the deliberate intention advancing themselves, by some fighting perhaps, but chiefly through the exercise of bad faith. The plot which the Chihli politicians evolved, after running from camp to camp all over China, had as its'ostensible objective the elimination of Chang! Tro-lin. It was not at first pro-Posed that Wu Poi-fu should emerge from retirement until. all of his former subordinates, including Sun Ghuan-tang, Feng 'Vu-hsiang and the leaders' of the Kuominchun in Honan and Shensi, had made a joint. attack upon Chang Tso-lin, "had exterminated his forces in hina proper ani pushed the victory into Manchuria. With Chang out come forth by joint invitation of all the commanders and assume sole control witha new Chihli Government serving bém'in Peking. The politicians' then further planned that 'Wir Pei-tu: as comtioander-in-chief was' to tur suddenly upon' Feng!
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