While Sun Chuan-fang was making headway in Fukien there Peking, July 26. immediately followed by an order might have been good reason for Within the next few weeks a Chi Hsieh-yuan planning great deal of pressure wil] be antament either through coerprohibiting any. interference with
descent upon Chekiang, because brought to bear upon Tsao Kun cion or bribery. It "is claimed he would then have had Lu Yung-to force him to denounce the Tien-by Tsao's more conservative advisers that, through the Tientsin hsiang between two Chibli fires tsin Clique and eliminate that and he could have been forced to group from ranks of the Clique more than $2,000,000 has already been spent upon Parlia-evacuate Shanghai if nothing else Chihlt Party. Out of every phase ment and that scores of fairly had been accomplished. The of the present situation Tsao Kun's more conservative advisers decent and respectable members situation has now chang¢d so of the legislative bodies have been radically that any move on Chi's contrive to manufacture arguments against the trouble dazzled, demoralized and ccrruptpart would be a signal for the makers who last year wrecked ed by the offers and counter-offers Luan Chi-jui following to use all of money by the Tientsin leaders their influence in conjunction with Wang Chung-hui's Government and who directed the coup this on the one hand and the Anfuites the South and West to make war year which has shattered the on the other. If thig is not stop-in every quarter upon the Chihli ped at once by some sort of Party. The present looks like an machinery altogether.
Some days ago a hot headed old drastic action, say the Tsao Kun excellent season for such 1 move-reformer from the Senate was advisers, public confidence in re-ment on the part of Tuan Chi-summoned to Paoting for a con-jui, Chang Tso-lin, La Yungference. Tsao Kun sought his ad-presentative institutiong will be forever alienated and the time hsiang and Sun Yat-sen, but for vice, but His suggestions were will soon come when the first the Chibli leaders to promote all so radically opposed to exist-essential measure of reform in moré¢ trouble than they already ing political methods that the China will.be the wholesale have on their hands, would seem conversation led nowhere. Final-execution of the legislators, foolhardy and desperate. No ly the guest, growing impatient other group of Chinese politicians, asked the super-Tuchun.
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