None of the appointees is a Manchu. President, Yuan Shih Kai, a Honan man. Premier, Tang Shao Yi, Cantonese, educated at Yale University, America. Army, General Tuan Chi Jui, Nganhwei man, once viceroy of Hunan, active in revolution. Navy, Admiral Lin Kwan Hsung, a man of considerable experience in the old and new navies, at Canton, along the Yangtze, etc. Foreign Affairs, Lou Tseng Tsiang, Minister to Russia, Netherlands, etc. In this appointment Yuan shows how natural it is for him to favor Russia, whom he fears. Interior, Cheo Ping Chun, a native of Hunan. Education, Tsai Yuan Pei. Railways, Posts, etc., Liang Ju Hao, Cantonese. Commerce and Labor, Chen Chi Mei. Agriculture, Sung Chiao Fen. Justice, Wong Chun Hui, American educated, very able. Finance, Hsiung Hsi Ling, Hunan man, once in Exterior Department of Hupeh province. Most of these are southern men, some of whom replied that they did not see how they could come without a southern army to protect their lives from the loosely-held northern troops, who had no idea what constitutional honor or promises meant. The whole of the American Pacific Navy, including the fine cruisers _California_, _South Dakota_ and _Colorado_, left Honolulu for the Far East, and the United States steamer _Monterey_, on the same day, landed one hundred men at Swatow to preserve order and the tanks of the Standard Oil Company. On March 19th the republican troops at Canton and Swatow gained back after severe engagements the forts that the mutinous troops and pirates had taken. The government at Canton bought up all the food in the shops so as to starve out Luk’s pirates. Amid all the conflict of accusation and denial, it is fitting that Yuan Shih Kai should speak for himself, and therefore I quote parts from his long address to the old conservatives and to the provincial governors shortly after the abdication of the dynasty, which abdication he adroitly and successfully urged when, to use his own words, “it was well nigh impossible to make stand against the republicans.”