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Show PARLIAMENT OF CHINA IS IDLE No Business Transacted i Because of Factional Quarreling PEKING. Aug H 1 (By the Asso-,i Asso-,i ted Press.) Parliament met again Wednesday but WB unable to transact trans-act business because of factional fights. it Is believed that construc- I tlVS legislation will not be effected until the strength of Sun Vat Sen's position Is defined The deposed leader of the southern China government remains at Shanghai Shang-hai and declines to come to Peking, to expose himself to pressure, on tho ..ii.' hand from Chang Tso-Lln, tho i.irmf-r bandit who controls Manchuria Manchu-ria and on tho other from General Wli Poi-Fu, tho military power or northern China. Sun is trying to obtain nssu rancor bol b Sides "f th- lr suptorl in Ins plan to unite north and south I China. President LI Yuan Hung, who pro-, pro-, confidence that Sun's plan of uniticatlon eventually will win despite de-spite obstacles now confronting it, a anxious to hand over the executive position he holds to Sun. prolded I parliament approves Sun as president. ARSENAL Dl.si kovkd. Workmen who sought by mob ac-! ac-! tlon to enforce their demand that the military governor of the province of i llupoh resign in favor of the civil governor appointed by President Li Yuan Hung have destroyed China's j chief arsenal, located at Wu Chang I according to wor I received hero YVed-nesday YVed-nesday Buildings of the arsenal were sot ablaze and the machinery was ' blown up. The officers In charge of the nr-senal nr-senal closed it when the attack started. start-ed. The workmen of the attacking party demanded Increased pay and recognition of the civil governor the president's appointee. Increased wages wore granted by the military goornor but he refused to withdraw in favor of the man the president selected se-lected MOB FIRED ON. This partial concession did not satisfy sat-isfy the workers They resumed thi work of demolition they had started. Troops sent by the governor fired into the met), killing several of the workers. work-ers. The military governor, who defies the Peking goveinmoiu, Is not permitting permit-ting President 1-1 Yuan Hung's appointee ap-pointee to assume office. He now Is threatened with uprisings throughout the province, as It is believed he is attempting to frustrate the president's plan to abolish militarism. oo |