The Archive · 1923

Friends under Threat of Arms

FLIGHT TO TIENTSIN

Another President has been driven out of office by Tsao Kun and his brother Tsao Jui and friends, the so-called Tientsin clique.

The campaign opened with the Premier being told to resign, the' Cabinet following suit.

President Li at first refused to bow to the militarists, arguing that only Parliament could unseat him.

But when General Feng Yuhsiang, the famous, Christian, leader, sided with the Tientsin clique'and the latter threatened to bring troops into Peking and eject Li by force, the latter bowed to the storm and on Wednesday fled to Tientsin, The telegrams describing this tussle arewinserted as they reached us day by day, to show the successive phases.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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