The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-03
CHINESE CLIQUE FALLSFROM POWER In Bad Repute Because of Their Intimate Financial Deal
 ings With Japan
By Associated Press

Peking, September 1.-Ine fall of the
 Anfu clique,' commonly identified as the pro-Japanese party of China because of the facility with which the Japanese have concluded loans with China in ex- change for valuable concessions and priv ileges during the period of it's predomi- nance, is seemingly complete and ire vocable. So complete is the collapse that it's chief representatives are at the mo- ment in hiding with prices on their heads.
 For five days every avenue leading from the Legation quarter has been watched day and night and every passer- out, Chinese or foreign, has been subject to inspection on the suspicion amounting tc belief that those wanted are harbored in some one or several of the legations and that they will eventually try to es- cape from the city. Likewise all city gates are closely guarded to prevent pas sage of any on the prescribed list.
 It is customary in Picking to post n railway stations and places generally where people congregate posters with the picture of persons known to be pick pockets, sneak thieves or burglars. Never before. however. in the memory of the oldest resident. have men who have oc- cupied high places of authority in af- fairs of the nation been so placarded
 This time. however, the streets were
 billed with cuts and descriptions of a falf dozen of the chief political offend CTS subjects of a presidential decree call ing for their arrest on a broad charge of having been guilty of bringing about the military commotion in July and ear Her. Rewards ranging from s1o,ooo to 90 GOO, were publicly offered for their de- livery into custody
 As an after thought, the photographs oe one of those placarded was removed, General Tuan Chi-kueis, because of in dignity to the uniform which he was shown to be wearing. new picture is being sought, which will present him in civilian gafb. Similar measures are con- templated with respect to General Hsu Shu-clleng (Little Hsul, who also ap pears in uniform. Little HSu has the distinction of being the most pressingly wanted, to judge from the fact that his capture is the only one valued as high as s30,c10 The others and rewards for their arrest are:
 Tseng Yu-chun, former minister Of communication. s2o000.
 Li chih-hao former minister of finance s10,000
 Gnu shen, former minister of justice s10,0OO
 Liang Hnne-chi, chief secretary of the Senate. s10000.
 Tuan Chi-kuei erstwhile commander in-chief of Field Marshal Tuan Chi jui's combined armies, sio.0Go
 Yao Chen. president of the supreme court, sleO00
 Yao Kuo-chen. vice minister of com munications, s10.0Go.
 If is announced that the men sought will be given civil trials if arrested. In the meantime the authorities are takirs charge of their propertvs both real ani personal 10 be held pending the outeone of such trial.
 new list of minor offenders is reoor'- ed to be in, process of preparation en1- bracing practically all members ee the Acfu Club, who have become distin- guished in the past year by their politi- cal activities. Besides a presidegtial de- cree is going forth dissolving all branch organizations in all provinces where they exist, The local headquarters of the Anfu Club have been searched and the doors sealed.