Word: kun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utilized for development of education in China. Sun Yat-Sen's Party is that which keeps him in power at Canton, province of Kwang-Tung. Politically it is not adverse to a central government at Peking, but is violently opposed to the present Government, charging that President Tsao-Kun fraudulently manipulated the last elections (TIME...
...Chinese Parliament wants to pay the Boxer Indemnity to France in paper France, and the Finance Minister, Wang Kemin, who is under French influence, insists that it should be paid in gold. He cause of this dispute, the government under Kun Tsao is likely to go to pieces." This is the present political situation in China as explained last night by T. Chen 2G. to a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Chen was asked to comment on press dispatches in the evening papers in regard to threatened impeachment proceedings against the finance minister...
...neither could secure a quorum. But some of the members came back at Peking, and now there are only 60 or 70 members at Shanghai who refuse to join in the Parliament. These protesting members believe that Li Yuan Hung was deposed illegally in 1917 and will not recognize Kun Tsao. Mr. Chen explained that there was also another government under Sun Yat-Sen in the extreme southern provinces which is virtually independent...
...Ledger published a despatch dated "Hongkong, Nov. 29", which began: "When news was received of the election of Marshal Tsao Kun as President of China, a meeting of Dr. Sun's Cabinet was held in Canton." Thereupon followed the text of a proclamation issued...
Unfortunately Marshal Tsao Kun was elected President about six weeks earlier and shortly thereafter (under date of Oct. 9) the news of Dr. Sun's proclamation was brought to this country by the Associated Press. A running head over the Ledger's account, appearing more than a month later, said "Foreign News Service by Wire and Wireless...