. The fight for the republic in China. Model Military Polick ix Peking Under the CommandOF General Munthe, a Norwegian, Raised for theProtection of the Legation Quarter 3j REPUBLIC IN CHINA 219 trol of the elections and voting to the local authorities,safe in the knowledge that every detail of the plot hadbeen carefully worked out in advance. > By this timethe fact that a serious and dangerous movement wasbeing actively pushed had been well-impressed on thePeking Legations, and some anxiety was publicly mani-fested. It was known that Japan, as the active enemyof Yuan Shih-kai, could not rem
. The fight for the republic in China. Model Military Polick ix Peking Under the CommandOF General Munthe, a Norwegian, Raised for theProtection of the Legation Quarter 3j REPUBLIC IN CHINA 219 trol of the elections and voting to the local authorities,safe in the knowledge that every detail of the plot hadbeen carefully worked out in advance. > By this timethe fact that a serious and dangerous movement wasbeing actively pushed had been well-impressed on thePeking Legations, and some anxiety was publicly mani-fested. It was known that Japan, as the active enemyof Yuan Shih-kai, could not remain permanently silent:andipn the 28th October in association with Great Brit-ain and Russia, she indeed made official inquiries atthe Chinese Foreign Office regarding the meaning ofthe movement. She was careful, however, to declarethat it was her solicitude for the general peace that alonedictated her action.^ Nevertheless, her warning had anunmistakable note about it and occasioned grave an-xiety, since the ultimatum of the previous
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