Peking, June 8.
All factions are convinced that the Tsao Jui clique is determined to. push Yen Hui-ching into the Premiership and that the President is weakening and will now agree to it within 24 hours. The Loyang partians say that the first act of the new Tsao Kun Cabinet under Yen Hui-ching will be the restoration to Chang Tso-din of all his titles and the confirmation of the Chihli-Fengtien peace pact in anticipation of Fengtien's support of Tsao Kun's Presidency, thus ignoring Wu Pei-fu, isolating him politically and virtually forcing him into retirement unless he is ready to break with Tsao and join the South against the Peiyang militarists.
The suspicion is current in diplomatic circles that the Government now knows who the political figures are behind the bandits but refuses to treat with them, thus causing the otherwise unexplained delay at Tsaochuang.
Chang Wen-sheng, ex-Tuchun of Anhui who recently visited Peking and offered his services as "media-for" to Wu Vu-lin, but: whose offer has been refused, is commonly believed to have been the delegate of the super-bandits, prepared to offer terms.
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