The inauguration ceremony took place at the Chu Jen Tang (Hall of Exalted Aim) which was originally built as n residence for President Yuan Shih-kai in the Central Lake Park. Only Chinese and Japanese attended the ceremony. Afterwards the foreign press-men were received there by certain members of the new government in whose name Mr. Tang Erh-ho made the customary inspiring address, with the usual assurances of good-will, Open Door, collaboration, respect for Treaties, reconst and all the usual bag of tri few questions were hastily put and eh hastily answered. One question, s to the legal status of the new vernment, appeared to be quite a poser almost, as if it had not been previously considered. Ater considerable hesitation, it was disposed of by the statement that the government was on a revolutionary basis. The whole impression one got of the new government and its installation was that of a very hasty improvisation rushed through without much care or forethought.
To-day the new government w proclaimed, by means of powerful loud speakers, from the top of the Tien An Men (Heavenly Peace Gate), from where, in the course of the 1; quarter of a century so many other promising governments have been proclaimed amid the usual plaudits of the populace. In this case, the applause or any kind of enthusiasm was d metly noticeable by its absence. There were probably less than 10.000 persons present, more than half of whom were school-boys and school-gir s who w re ordered to attend, and also large numbers of Japanese, with the Rising Sun much in evidence, to welcome the new brother. The rest of the spectators, one gathered, were there to listen to the police and cther bands discourse ing sweet music, to see the crackers being let off, and above at 10 watch the dragon dances and the stilt dancers—these last surely no allusion to the situation of the new gover ment. In fact they had quite obvious-
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