On April 10, the Kuominchun attempted a coup @état in Peking, disarmed Marshal Tuan's bodyguard in the hope of creat-jing a Soviet form of Government. Although Marshal Tuan wont into hiding in the Legation Quarter with his seals, the movement proved a fiasco, as the bodyguard refused to surrender, There was then at this time not leven a semblance of Government and the Diplomatic Body notified the Waichinopu that further diplomatic relations would be impossible until a Government ame into existence with an: thority which would prove satisfactory to the Powers. On April 16, Ex-President Tsao Kun, who had been imprisoned for more than a year, was released to breach the alliance between Marals Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-in, Although Marshal Tuan went into hiding, he still regarded himself as Chief Executive, but on the 19th the Chia Cabinet resigned en bloc and on the following day Marshal Tuan arrived in Tientsin, There being no Government in the capital, a Committee of Public Safety was organized headed by such elder statesmen as generals Wang, Shih-chen and Chao Ey-h They were faced not only wi the problem of maintaining f eign relations but also with serious food and fuel shortage in the capital. On May 30, after considerable delay, Dr. W. W. Yen agreed to form a Cabinet.
Marshal Chang Tso-lin regard-Peking as the province of Marshal Wu Pei-fu and left political matters entirely to the latter, who was also busy with his campaign in Honan, The question as to the disposition of ex-President Tsao Kun scorned be of some importance but on May 1, he issued a circular telegram announcing his retirement from public life, On May 12, Dr. W. W. Yen's cabinet.was actually formed consisting largely of Wu Pei-fu adherents and nominees. By May 9, the Kuomin chun was completely dimi: fated from Chinese polities and jit was announced that Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang had arrived in Moscow. Although intermittent: {fighting took place in the vicinity of the Nankow Pass and although
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