Peking, May 13.
Dr. W. W. Yen officially resumed the post of Premier this afternoon st the Huai Jen Tang, a hall in the Forbidden City, Dr, Wellington Koo and Mr, Li Ting-hsin were the only ones of hi former Cubinet colleagues present.
In the course of a short address.
Dr. Yen said that it was beyond hi expectation that the central A ministration would be interrapte as it was in 1924, also that ko would resume his post as he was doing. He had not been eager to resume the Premiership, but the earnest persuasion of the Committee of Safety and of public bodies throughout the country had compelled to do so in a spirit of self-snerifi IMustrating the urgent persuasions which he had encountered Dr.
Yen quoted Mr. Wang Shih-chen, the ex-Premier, and Mr, Chao Erh-heun, the well-known statesman of the eld réginee, who had ask-him whether he wanted China to exist as a single nation and declarced that if so he must resume office, if not, he might decline, Therefore, said, he could not refuse, The Cabinet has thus been restor-bop not as a "Government Cabinet, This question will be discussed at tthe first meeting of the Cabinet, the date of which has not yet been fi ed, pending the attendance of otter Cabinet Ministers or. the zppointmont of new members The Cabinet met ta tier noon, and this evening it issued a notification saying that Marshal Teno Kun on May 1 resigned the ud the Cabinet, in cordance with the law, from to-day fakes over the functions of the Bresident.
This is siged by Dr. W. W. Yen and the Cabinet.—Reuter.
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