The Archive · 1923

President Li and His Enemies

Iluminating Account of the Methods Used to Drive Him from Office ts retrospective, the Lhe inter

having now fled to 1 But his account of the methods employed to drive him out throws a burid light on Tuchun politics. will not leave here until my successor is elected by Parliament." This sentence was the keynote of an interview which President Li Yuan-hung gave to a nun ber of foreign correspondents at his private residence this evening.

Outside the main entrance was a mass of demonstrators carrying white flags and yellow flags. They purported to represent the Citizens' Party and came to urge that payment'be made to the troops and tothe police.' This was nob so much an expression of patriotism as an aggregation of 20-coppers' worth per individual of embarrassment to the President. In the Presidential mansion it was stated that the demonstrators had been hired ut the cost of 20 coppers apiece,

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