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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Editor of "The

Directory

and

Chronicle of the Far East'' wishes to

acknowledge the use freely made in these

introductions of the excellent Report

for 1937 on the Foreign Trade of China

by Mr. J. M. H. Osborne, the officiating

Statistical Secretary of the

Maritime Customs.

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unable to sit because a quorum of members had not put in an appearance. Hostility towards the President found further expression in a new revolution, which broke out in, the province of Kiangsi and extended southward to Kwangtung, involving some fighting at Shanghai, Nanking and a few other points in the Yangtsze Valley, the avowed purpose of the revolution being to organise an expedition "to punish Yuan Shih-kai." Within a couple of months this movement was effectually suppressed by the Central Government, and the leading spirits of the revolution fled the country. Among the refugees was Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Thereupon the President and his Cabinet showed a greater determination to secure more effective control over the provinces. The first thing to be done was to confirm the President in his office, and Parliament, evidently impressed by the confidence the country had shown in him during the late troubles, elected him President of the Republic for the next five years, and Li Yuan-hung, who since the first Revolution had remained in command of the troops at Wuchang, was elected Vice-President. Hardly a month had elapsed since his election before the