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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after arriving at the Presidential Palace, the President-Elect entered the main reception room, where the chief officers of state were assembled. Marshal Tsao-Kun read to them a short inaugural address, bowed three times, retired...
...main provisions of the Constitution are concerned with the establishment and maintenance of a National Army (China has heretofore had no National Army), a uniform system of administration of justice and the levying and collection of national taxes. The provinces are to have self-government and will, it is said, organize their own forces, free from interference by the Army, for maintaining peace and order. Governors of the provinces will be elected by the individual provinces concerned under much the same system as the election of state governors in the U. S. On the whole the Constitution follows more closely...
...Lords) and the Super-Tuchuns have managed very ably to appoint Governors in the provinces-generally themselves. They have large armies for the suppression of lawlessness and anything else that occurs to them. This state of things obviously breathes defiance to the spirit of the new Constitution. The main obstacle to a unified China is the armies of the Tuchuns. They cannot be laid aside merely because the Constitution, says so or because President Tsao-Kun asks the Tuchuns to do so. A conflict of interest will inevitably arise, in which the Republic will become a Tuchun trying to rise...
...other main feature was the report of the Committee on Municipal Health Department Practice on its proposed award for the " best health" city of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 1). Dr. Watson S. Rankin, state health officer of North Carolina, was appointed Field Director of the Association, to visit American cities for the purpose of scoring them in the contest and to advise on ways and means of improving community health conditions...
...best edited evening newspaper in London, adapted to a rather higher standard of culture than any of its rivals, while the Sunday Chronicle, published in Manchester, often gave independent expression to advanced views on social question. The considered appeal to the more cultured community in London now rests mainly with The Times, the Westminster Gazette, and the Morning Post, while the Daily Telegraph, with its immense and unbroken advertising connection, stands for the medium of commercial opinion, Philistine in type, but in the main reasonable and open-minded...