Jan, 14.
Mone and more difficult does the reviewing of China's history become as more and more the breach wideys between different sections of the country; while till these sections react upon each other and contintially group themselves in new but ever! futile combination, so that it is impossible to form an accurate dea of the doings of one with—out simultaneous reference to three or four of its neighbours, 'The classification used below may serve to refresh readers' minds on the general trend of events, with the further aid of cross references, so far as space' permits, to: indicate where the chief intermingling occurs.
PEKING, Phe New Year found General Li Yuen-hang still President and on Jantiory 3 telegraphing to the Tuchuns urging them to abolish themselves and disband. -their Pew ed in' the lot antral" Government under the Constitution which Parliarent was supposed to be drafting and pressing for provincial tonomy." On January 5 General hang Shou-tseng accepted the Premiership. In his. Cabinet was Mr: Alired 8zo as Foreign Minister. The latter lasted just month, and resigned on February 4. On February 7, to meet Chinese New Year charges, the Government proposed a short term loan of $12,000,000, which with discount, " interest ete., would have " brought them $9,279,600 and required a repayment twelve months later of $12,960,000. Parliament squash. ed this ruinous scheme and how Government got over New Year is q mystery. On March 8 the Cabinet resigned. On March 10 Peking sent a Note to Japan demanding cancellation of the 1915 Treaty (or what remained of it, after the compromise arranged at the Washington Conference) and retrocession of Port Arthur and Dalny. Japan's rejection of the demand was expected in Peking, which had merely intended to keep its) claim on'Kuantung alive; but it none the less provoked an anti-Tapaneso boycott, which raged, chiefly in the Yangtze Valley, through the summer, provoked: a brawl at Changsha on June 1, when two Chinese were killed by Jupanese marines landed to loading of _the Wuling Mara, and petered out in August. On-March 26 the gunboats on the Yangtze went on.strike and threatened to seize tha ealt at Shihethuj if they were not paid. They got! $300,000 on account from Peking and some arrangement was
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