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with a suite of many tens of horsemen.
Wong had been summoned to Peking to be Tutu of Chihli. Arrived there Yuan appointed him to succeed Huang Shing as Defender of Nanking.
Mr. Tang had refused to sign both these appointment s the first on the ground of un-
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suitability, the second on the ground of breach of faith. In consequence he had resigned his post as
Premier.
(c) The President was injudicious in choosing his officials. He is surrounded by a clique of corrupt and intriguing schemers.
(d) The President is extravagant in spending huge sums on bribery and in maintaining useless garrisons.
(e) Under President Yuan the Government was
inefficient and corrupt.
In this connection I ventured to draw kr. Tang's attention to the Government of the Kwangtung Province. That Goverment had till recently been presided over by a nominee of Sun-Yat-sen's, Lir.
Wu Hon-man, and was composed of members of the Kuo in Tang appointed not by Yuan but by Wu-Hon-man.
It was by far the worst Government I had ever known in Kwangtung. The Kuo Min Tang accused Yuan of autocratic methods. But here as a Provincial Goverment, of its own members am practically of its own making, which was nothing but a military Despotism of the most pronounced
type.
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