CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 230

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appears to be a well meaning individual) than that of the Administration as a whole; and it was therefore not altogethr a matter of surprise when, on the 20th instant, the Mandates duly appeared appointing Shen Hung-ying and Sun Ch'uan-fang to the Military Governorships (Tuli) of Kuangtung and Fukien respectively, accompanied by other Mandates making further supplementary appointments in the South in the interests of Tu Pei-fu's policy. Thus once again has the unfortunate Li

Yuan-hung had to eat his worde. The effect of these Handates

is now awaited; by many Chinese they are regarded as a

declaration of war by Peking against the Auo Kin Tang.

9.

The general situation is thus taking on an unfortun-

ate resemblance to that existing at the same time last year,

that is to say the country appears to be preparing for hos- tilities on a large scale and to be lining up into two

hostile camps for that purpose, namely, Taso Kun, Fu Pei-fu

and the Kuangsi militarists(the Cheng Hsueh Hai), on the

one side, and Chang 780-lin, the nfu Party (represented by

General Lu Tung-hsiang of Cheklang) and Sun Yat-sen and the

Kuo Min Tang, on the other. It would seem that if Pei-fu,

whom the Chihli Party had been successful in relegating to the

background after his victorious campaign against Chang Tso-lin

laat summer, is again taking charge of the situation in the

interests of the Forthern militarista. The first definite

intimation I received of the fact that i was taking an active

part in the situation in the South took the form of a visit

on the last day of February from one of his principal emissar-

ies, who was instructed on behalf of his master and Te1ao Kun

to approach me with a request that five Chinese warships in

Canton waters, which wished to rejoin the Northern naval

foroes, should be permitted to refit at Hongkong in order to

enable them to sail forth. This was before Wu Fei-fa had made

any /