Evening star., 1922-06-18

the presidency of China He at once offered
the premiership to Wu Ting-fang. civil gov
ernor of Kwangtung province lin which
Canton is situated), and, since the detection
of Gen Chen kwang- Ming, the most important
supporter of Sun Yat-Sen. WI Ting-fang Is
happily remembered here as one-tme Chinese
minister to Washington. He is probably the
wittest man in the world, He was foreign
minister under Ii Yuan Hung In 1917, when
the latter forced by the militarists to re-
fang should accept, expecting that, should he
do SO. he would draw after him to the sup
port of the Peking government considerable
part of the Canton government and parlia-
ment
the old parliament who recently assembled at
Tientsin (and who by now should be in
Peking) constituted majority of the old par
lament. but it now appears that they are rot
majority. and so are not competent 10 pro
ceed as the parliament However. go consider. 81 the
members Of which were members OF the oIa
parliament have wired CONGRATULATIONS TO Ii
Yuan-Hung, adding that. should developments
in Peking correspond to the present promise
they will go thther and rejoin their old col
leagues. Probably. if Wu Ting-fang accepts
the premiership they will shortly follow him.
Should 1t prove impossible to muster major
ity of the old parliament at Peking. it may be
thought necessary to summon national con-
yention and, so to speak. rebuild the repu9ie &c
the delay involved which might prove fatal
to the present promise Of unifcation H.
invitation of the Peking cabinet and at the
urgency Of most elements in the country. his
tenure of the office being irregular, and so he
Sun Yat-sen. declaring that the proceedings
Al rehans aonas,ed are as natriots and iheraisN
and intimating that, II China is to be saved
only one man a,. can do the JOB, namely sun Sun
through Kiangsi WI Pei-Fu will probably
deal with him when he has finally settled with
1t will be recalled how Chang Tso-Lin sued
to WI Pei-Fu for an armistice. which was
taI ao1.o T Nra al
gram of CONGRATULATIONS and promise of sup
port The old fox was trying to throw WI
armstce a piece of foulest treachery.
But wu Pei-Fu knew his man. and when early
Chinwangtao and shanhaikuan. not only
Wu Pei-Fu not taken by surprise, but he
. Chang's reception. Therefore. Chang Tso-Lin
is again on the run,
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Jnpan-The Takahashi cabinet having
signed, Admiral Baron Kato. who headed the
Japanese delegation at the Washington con-
ference, has accepted the premiership of
Japan His cabinet is non-party one. The
main feature of his announced policy is to
secure unqualified acceptance of the Washing
ton conference treaties. against which. some
allege. the mlitarists have made dangerous
headway.
Viscount Uchida continues foreign min
ister which is all to the good so far as the
Washington treaties and (probably) the pros
pect of a liberal policy were concerned, but
on the other hand. the militarist Gen. Yama-
nash is minister of war; which is all to the bad.
people say. AS remarked above. the new cab
met is nom party: certainly quite much may
be said against for non dependence OF the
cabinet a party
X
l regret the necessity of omitting post
poning discussion of many important
delectable matters. Coal prices and Mr.
Hoover; the latest decision of the Railroad
Labor Board cutting the pay of $4,000 work
ers, and other themes domestic: the deadlock
in the Chilean-Peruvian negotiations; Lenin's
condition.; the conquest of the Volga famine:
the attempt scale Mount Everest, and
sundry other things.