There is no doubt at all that the Chinese people have never been so deeply stirred before as they are now by the shameful but clumsy tactics adopted by the, leaders of the Chihli faction in forcing President Li Yuan-hung to flee from his office. For the past week, the Chinese press has been full of caustic comments regarding the latest political, coup, and the Chinese public organizations have been holding meeting to discuss ways and means to meet the situa-yien. Public opinion is as_(overwhelmingly in sympathy with President Li as it is bitterly antagonistic towards'. Tsao Kun and his mean and contemptible hirelings. A few typical articles are ~summarized below The Cabinet Ministers, says the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce" in functioning as the Government, should let the Premier be their leader; yet they forbid him to return on thes ground that he has already resigned, while ignoring the fact that they ithemselives resigned at the same time as th Premier.
if they allege that the Premier alone resigned and not the other Ministers, then why cannot Li Ken-yuan_ and Peng Yun-yi, who are also Ministers of the same Cabinet, resume office too?
Because, as'they argue, the Presidential Mandate accepting the resignation of the Cabinet en bloc was published on June 13 after the President had! left Peking,.it is not recognized by the Cabinet and the Parliament as valid, why are the three Mandates, which were forced from the President by Wang Chen-ping and published on June 18, also after the President had left the capital, accepted in good faith? i
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