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During the week one General Wang Shih Chien, not previously mentioned in despatches, took it upon himself to keep order at Peking with a handful of mercenaries, and generally mediated between the contending factions. Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...
...Tuan & Taso. Tuan Chi-jui, "the Chief Executive of China" (since the office of President is vacant), had either been imprisoned while his rival Taso Kun (the last President) had been released from jail; or Tuan's personal soldier- police were still protecting him and keeping in confinement such of his enemies as were in their power...
...consensus of ordinary news despatches was that Tuan's troops had deserted him because he had embezzled 500,000 taels ($350,000) due them as pay; and that Taso Kun had been reinstated as "President under Super-Tuchun...
Thus far M. Tchitcherin appeared to have entered merely a "normal protest" against the sort of act which irresponsible Chinese soldiers are in the habit of committing now and then. He despatched another telegram, however, to Tuan Chi-jui, the impotent Chief Executive of the Chinese Republic, at Peking. M. Tchitcherin demanded that the Tuan Government force Super-Tuchun Chang to heed the demands made upon him or authorize the U. S. S. R. "to use its own efforts" in coercing Chang...
Since the Tuan Government is notoriously so weak that its pretense of representing "China" is a mockery, M. Tchitcherin's "impossible" demand that it coerce the powerful Chang was regarded as a warning that the U. S. S. R. is seriously considering the employment of the Red Army against the pro-Japanese, anti-Soviet "Manchurian War Lord...