Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-01
CHINESE PURSUING
THE "ANFU CLIQUE
Heavy Rewards Offered for
Arrest of Leaders Who
Favor Japanese.

| PEKING. October 1.-The fall of the
/ "Anfu clique" commonly identified as
the pro-Japanese party of China, be-
cause of the facility with which the
Japanese have concluded loans with
China in exchange for valuable con-
! ceSsions and privileges during the
period of it's predominance. is seem :
ingly complete and irrevocable. So
complete is the collapse that its chief
| representatives are at the moment 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 sus-
picion amounting to belief that those
| wanted are harbored in some one or
several of the legations and that they
Will eventually try to escape from the
city. Likewise all city gates are
closely guarded to prevent passage OF
any on the prescribed list.
Pictures Posted in stations.
! railway stations and places generally
where people congregate, posters
with the pictures of persons known to
be pickpockets, sneak thieves or
burglars. Never before, however, in
the memory of the oldest resident.
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places of authority in affairs Of the
| nation been so placarded.
This time. however. the streets
were billed" with cuts and descrip-
! tons of a half dozen of the chief po-
litical offenders. subjects Of presi-
| rest on broad charge of having
been guilty of bringing about the
| military commotion in July and
earlier. Rewards ranging from $4,000
to 100000 were publicly offered for
their delivery into custody.
AS an afterthought, the photo
graph of one of those placarded was
removed-Gen. Huan Chi-kuei-be-
| cause of indignity to the uniform
which he was shown to be wearing.
new picture is being sought which
| will present him in civilian garb.
Similar measures are contemplated
| with respect to Gen. Hsu Shucheng
| Iittle Hsu. who also appears in
! uniform Little Hsu has the distinc-
| ton of being the most pressingly
wanted. to judge from the fact that
his capture is the only one valued
as high as 100000. The others and
| rewards for their arrest are:
Lenders Wanted and Rewards.
Tseng- Yu-chun. former minister of
| communications. $4,000; Lii Shih-hao.
! former minister of finance, $4,000:
| Chu Shen. former minister of JUS
| l1Ce, SlU,VOU, LldnS ftuHS-Cul, Culel
secretary of the senate, $4,000: Tuan
Chi-kuei, erstwhile commander-in-
/ chief of Field Marshal Tuan Chi
| jui's combined armies, $4,000; Yao
Chen. president of the supreme court.
| $4,000, and Yao Kuo-chen, vice min
| lister of communications. $4,000.
1t is announced that the men
| sought will be given civil trials If
| arrested. In the meantime the au-
| thorities are taking charge of their
property. both real and personal, to
| be held pending the outcome of such
trial.
A new list of minor offenders is
| reported to be in process of prepa-
ration, embracing practically all
| members of the Anfu Club. who have
become distinguished in the past by
their political activities. Besides, a
! presidential decree 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.