By what authority the men who claimed to represent Wu Pei-fu were has yet to be discovered. Their action certainly served no purpose except to give the Fengtien leaders an excuse for seizing the administration of the This they did with all due formality on Tuesday, April 20. their own police chief Li Shou-ching, ter known as Li Ta-san, and General Wang Han-ming, familiarly knot Wang Chi. In taking this no attention what Marshal Tuan Chi-jui's resumption of office, of Tsao Kun's presence in the city, of the opinions and tastes of the Wa Pei-fu generals west of the city. On Tuesday morning Marshal Tuan was still functioning, so was Marshan Wang Shih-chen's committee of safety, Tsao Kun was! at large and was chief executive, if Marshal Tuan was not, and the Fengtien military gentry were the de facto rulers. It looked for a time as if ce-operation between Wu Pei-fa and Chang Tsao-lin had ready broken down through the Jealousy of subordinates and _as though the seeds of infinite trouble had been sown.
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