CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 589

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Governors,

2. Service of unsecured Japanese loans contracted during Atu régime, Japan thus holds the trump card and it remains to be seen

when and how she will play it.

Sunyatsen is equally paralysed by lack of funds and local opposition, and belief is growing that his acceptance of the Presidency was equivalent to political suicide.