Peking, June 3.
General Tuan Chi-jui has sent Mr. Lenox Simpson a letter denying that he has taken any part soever in recent political events, or that he had despatched emissaries to Paotingfu offering suggestions regarding a solution of the present crisis, as has been stated in the press. On the contrary, he states that he has consistently refused since his retirement to take any part whatsoever in internal politics.
Regarding the question of the Presidency, he says that, inasmuch as President Hsu Shih-cHang was elected to office during the time General Tuan was Prime Minister, after destroying the 1917 -restoration movement, it is inconceivable. that he to-day should be in any way connected with any of the recent moves affecting the matter of the Chief Executive, which he has declined even to discuss.
This statement has a certain interest, as' the question may ultimately arise as to who was responsible for advising General Tuam to chance the 1913 Election Law and. summon the so-called new Parliament.—Reuter.
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