The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-17
CHINESE HEAD
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 PUBLIC CAREER
Constituents Divided In Feeling Toward Revolu- tionary Satellite.

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 Picking, July 17-Hsu- Shih-cha ng no longer is President of China His cycle of power is ended The political wheel has turned and spun him off into the obscurity of private citizen ship to watch the political world from the privacy of his home.
 To some Hsu Shfh-chang is an idol. the most fearless and righteous and able of the President of the ten years of the Republic. To others he is the incarnation of intrigue. the evil gen jus of China, the man who has hung like a parasite on the country, bring ing to ruin great man. after great man and betraying his best friends one after the other for the sake of his po- sition.
 Heaven itself drowned upon Hsu Shih-chang,'' say some Chinese. For while the Presidential train was making its way to Tientsin the coun- try was swept by a. fierce .duststorm, and there was a. sunset of nery red. Hsu Shih-chang looked worn and ex- hausted,. say those present at the time of his departure from Peking, and those who saw him step from the train in Tientsin agree.
 Smiled Nervously.
 o-os He smiled sRdn neryously rsa yn at tt,e the rapidly away to his brothers house, in the Italian Concession, where he will stay until his own residence in u-
 They take no chance with the vagaries of their own legal system, these ex-Presidents and ex-officials; no matter how much they have i'm voked during their term of office the Supreme law of the Iand.'
 Old Hsu and the young Republic of China have an intermfng1ed his tory. 'The Old Man of the Sea- say list of the men who. have been broken and cast asrde, while the old Man maintained his high posi- tion of influence in the country. First there was the great Yuan Shih-kai, the strongest man of the brief generation of the Republic. Hsu was his sworn brother and urged him into making his monarchy move and then deserted him when the move failed" declare many Chinese.
 There was Yuan Chih-jui, leader of the Anfu faction, stronger in military way than General Wu Pei flu is today, though weaker than Gen eral Wu in that he sought the sup port of the Japanese and forfeited the support of the Chinese people. Hsu Shih-chang dismussed Wu Pei flu at the order of Yuan Chih-Jui in 1920, and then. when Wu defeated Tuan, Hsu veered with the wind and dismissed the Anfu leader
 Chang TsO-Iin Falls.
 '.And now it is Chang Tso-lin who has fallen. but this time Hsu falls aIso,' we are told. NO longer can 
 political sails. Playing off Chang Tso-lin against Wu Pet-fu. obedient to Chang Tso-1in as Hong as he seem ed to hold the mastery, Hsu hoped still to retain his position as Presf- dent, because of the uncertainty of the political situation and because of the politics in the camp of the vic tors.''
 It is a distinguished career, how ever, that the ex-President has had. Look in the Who's Who'' for China and you discover after his name practically all the important offices of the old Empire and many under the regime of the Republic He was a Grand Councillor to the Empress Dowager. the Old Buddha who was so largely responsible for the dis asterS of Boxer days
 We find him Minister of the Govern ment Council and the President of ward we discover him in Manchuria.
 VicerOy of Manchuria. ..
 He was Viceroy of Manchuria in 1907 but it was previously that he brought Chang Tso-Iin, then a ban dit in Manchuria, into the pay and services of the Chinese government. Chang Tso-lin had been the leader of many bandits and had enlisted with them with the Japanese against the Russians. He and his forces fought with all the bravery famous among the 'EHunghutZe," "Redbeards," and when at the close of the war they were asked by the Japanese to enlist in the service of China they were welcomed and won quick promotion. Hsu was instrumental in bringing this about
 In 1909 Hsu Shih-chang, after hav- ing held the post of President of the Board of the Interior. became the President of the Board of Communi- cations and Director-GHenera1 of the Tentsin Pukow Railroad It was during his regime that the Peking- Suiyuan line was started the line
 
 a Chinese engineer. without foreign help and financed with Chinese cap ital.
 He was Grand Secretary in 1910 and Grand Councillor - both among the highest positions in the gift of the Empire. He became NTce Presi- dent of the Privy Council in Novem- Der. 1911, and then Chief of the Gen eral Staff.
 Retires From Politics. Then came the c inese ReTolu- Manchu Emperor abdicated. Hsu Shih-chang then was reITevel of his position. He was made g.ardian of the Young Emperor and then dis factor until his appointment as Sec retary of State under Yuan Shih-kai.
 He fsteered clear of political affli- ations during the days of the attempt by Chang Hsun to restore the mon archy. But he maintained his hold upon the political factions.
 Then in September, 1918. when the Parliament had been convened under the 'new election law drawn up to suit the ends of the northern mili- tary~ men, headed by Yuan Chih-jui, he was elected President and effectu- ally blocked the election of a vice president. And thus he remained for four years
 Now he is gone.
 s'vvu Pei-fu,'' they say. "has dis lodged the old Man of the Sea-"