pies to
110, 113,
COPY
No. 476 (4996/23)
kong
My Lord,
tril a
PEKING.
366
August 18thr.,1923.
I have the honour to submit the following
report on the developments in the political situation
in China during the part two months.
Yet - sen festo.
Man-
No.119
2.
In my despatch No.344 of June 19th I report-
king No.50 of ed the expulsion from the Fresidency of Li Yuan-hung
28/1723.
as the remilt of a coup d'état engineered by the
'extremists of the Chibli Farty, which left the country
5.F.of 11/37/23.
quita 10.25 23/7723.
musta No. 28 110/u/23.
↑ koy No.91 Of
3/7/23.
without President or Premier, the administration being
carried on by a portion of the former Cabinet consist-
ing of the Ministers of Interior (Kao Ling-wei),
Finance (Chang Ying-hua), Communications (Yu Yê-ling),
Justice (Ch'eng K'o), and Navy (Li Ting-hsin), all
I
partisans of the Chihli faction; the Ministries of
War and Foreign Affairs had been vacant at the time
of the coup d'état; while the Ministers of Agriculture,
/and
arquess Jurzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.0.3.1,, 6.0.1.E.,
etc..
etc..
ntc..
FOREIGN
OFFICE.