Evening star., 1924-10-25
War Ended and Mukden
Leader Chang Becomes
Real Ruler of China.
AGREEMENT SUSPECTED
TO OVERTHROW WU PEI-FU
Peking War Lord Had Weak Sup
port for Drive North That
Brought Downfall.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEKING, October 25-Tsao Kun
has resigned the presidency of the
central Chinese government.
1t is understood that Gen. Feng Yu-
hsiang, who is incontrol of the ca pi-
tai, has instructed the cabinet 10
carry on.
A mandate last night by President
Tsao Kun ending the war in which
the Peking forces had been resisting
the armies of Gen. Chang Tso-lin, tn"
Manchurian leader, and exiling Gen.
WI Pei-fu, military head of the Pc
king government, to Tibet. led TO tn"
assumption that the Manchurian ami
Peking military chieftains had reach
ed an agreement.
Agreement Suspected.
The surmise that the overthrow or
the Peking government by Gen. Fen"
Yu-hsiang, the christian general"
was with the knowledge and prob
ably by agreement of Gen. Chang
Tso-lin. was voiced in many quarters.
Gen. Feng returned to Peking to oust
the government under the banner OF
which he was thought to be fighting.
while his armies were supposed to be
defending Jehol against Gen. Chang's
Manchurlan INVASION.
Failure of President Tsao Kun to
fulfill his prediction promises, cou-
pied with the domineering attitude o.
Gen. WI Pei-fu. who controlled the
actions of the President and used his
influence to promote his ambitions at
the expense of others, made possibIa
the overthrow of the government by
Feng.
Chance for Change.
The action of Gen. WI. as military
head of the government. in embark
ing upon the war with Gen. Chan-
Tso Lin without the necessary prep
aration afforded an opportunity tor
the dissatisfied elements to effect a
change which they much desired, but
which they despaired of obtaining
while Gen. WI maintained undivided
strength at Peking.
Gen. WI was aware of the lack or
enthusiasm in the -anks of the poIit-
ical rivals in his camp and sought to
send the apathetic military chiefs as
far behind the front lines as pos
sible. Gen. Wu seemed to hope that
he would be able to inf1ict a decisive
blow upon the Manchurian armies
with his loyal front liAe troops be-
fore the hostility of his political
enemies in the rear developed into
an opposition.
Delay in Start.
The delay encountered by Gen. wa
in getting Gen. Feng and Gen. Vans
Chung Hui to depart for the North
apparently gave Gen. Chang TSo Lin
time to organize his forces, which re-
suited in the halting of the Peking
troops at Shanhaikwan, a town near
the Notwithstanding border at
the eastern extremity of the great
Mea
tween Gen. Feng and his adherents
on one hand and Chang Tso Lin and
Taun Chi Jul. former premier and
Anfu leader, who has been living In
retirement at Tientsin, passively OPP
posed to the Peking government,
were going on.
There are no grounds for the belief
that an understanding was reached
in principle, between the Christian
senerar and the Manchurian leader
during the early days of the cam
paign.
Baked by Censorship.
1t became known today that Gen.
Feng endeavored to circularize the
country Geographically about week
ago, voicing his belief as to the de-
STABILITY of ending the war, but his
efforts were baked because of the
censorship.
About the same time press reports
from Shanhaikwan dealt with the
visit to Gen. Feng of an emissary OF
the Manchurian forces fighting
against the Peking forces on the Je-
hol front. What the mission of the
emissary was has never been dis
closed, but it is now generally as
sumed that it had a direct beSeing on
the details of the coup of the Chris
tan general"
For days Peking was without word
or intimation of Gen. WI Pei-fu's
course in the face of developments
there.