Peking, Oct. 8.
Mr. Quo Tai-chi who was President Li Yuan-hung's private sec retary during his former tenure of office, has returned to Peking from the south and, according to official gossip, is about to resume his former relations with the President. Mr. Quo,. it will be 1 membered, figured prominently in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Canton Government. He was closely associated with Dr, Wu Ting-fang during the latter's courageous resistance to the disbandment of Parliament in 1917 and, after the monarchy restoration movement ang Tuan Chi-jui's assumption of power, he followed Dr. Wu south. During recent years he; was director of the Canton Pubplicity Bureau and, last spring, when Dr. Wu assumed the office of Civil Governor after Chen Chiung-ming's departure from Canton, Mr. Quo became chief secretary. His return to the north and to President Li, with whom he had a slight misunderstanding nearly two years ago, is not regarded so much as a desertion of Dr. Sun and the Kuomintang but as a hopeful sign of the gradual elimination of interparty strife and of ce-operation between the best elements of all parties with a view to genuine'
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