CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 368

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No. 476 (4996/23)

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My Lord,

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PEKING.

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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

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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..

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OFFICE.