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Show PEKING RULER ! CANCELS ORDER President Lu Eager to Make South China Leader New Premier ! i PEKING. June 13 (Bj the Asso-1 elated Press) President Lu Yang-) H bang's mandate, appointing Dr. Wu Ting-Fang, former minister to Wash m'on and prominent south China I Ic.irlr, premier, w.is cancMld today pending rc..ii of reply from Dr Wu to tho request that h- accept the offic; nnd aid in the reunification oT ' h I n a . Following the naming of "vVu Ting-Fanir Ting-Fanir as rrem'.cr a different. e of opin-ion opin-ion irosf atnonfr th ti osuPmii '.s rul irlsers as to thi advisability cr making public th" appointment until the 90Uthern leader's aceppun'-f" had beep received Accordingly, President Lu cancelled his mandate, and telegraphed the offer to General Wu. urging him to accept and to come to Peking with- I out delay to aid In the habllitatlon Of hi.s country, in the meantime tht cabinet remains uncompleted The president today conferred with ihe members of the revived republican i parliament, which recently assembler) at Tien TBsln and then came to the c apitoi President Nti said thai be I hoped that a sufficient number of Its members resident in Canton would) come to Peking to constitute a quorum' land proceed with the reunification of 1 1 Ihlna Ho declared that he had accepted! the presidency only pending action, of i the constitutional parliament, which, he said, was at liberty to choose whoever who-ever It thought fit for the office of chief executive. It iv, l.eiieyed in official circles th.V ! it will be several v.eeks before a par- liamehtary quorum Is ubained i TjfSJN T8IN Pine 13. (By tiie Aa-sociatcd Aa-sociatcd Press) If t'hang rso-Liln'sl suit for an arralatice hist week was a ruse, as Is believed here, to give h'.s . defeated and retreating Manehurlanj army a chance to reorganize for a successful offensive. It missed its pui- pose. The ooiTim inder of Wu Pel-Fu's Giiihll army. remembering Chang's i early training as B bandit leider, wait julte prepared for bin: When Chang's troops attacked Sunday morning they found a firm Ohihll line strongly sup ported by machine guns and artillery , After an aP day battle Sunday trio Mam hurlans are again headed home ward. Chang's troops attacked the Chlh'.i rilu flank, resting on the Iiaotuni? j I gulf const n-;ir Chinwangtao, hut wer I repulsed after severe fighting A re-1 Pn Monday nigh' said the Manchu-j rlan were withdrawing northward to-j to-j ward EThanhalkwan with Wu's army pressing closi behind them Two cnt-' I loads of wounded were being sent to I Tien Tsln. As the result of the new outbreak, I WM has ordered bis third divisional th flower of his army, to leave Its! headquarters at Tangku fot the front. |