File No. 893.00/2394
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Peking , May 6, 1916, 3 p.m.
Government bodies are working quietly to perfect arrangements for reunion of all the provinces. Feng Kuo-chang is obtaining by telegraphic consultation the sense of the seventeen loyal provinces which is then to be submitted to the five dissident for acceptance. Tsai Ao is in full agreement with Tuan on all points except the demand for immediate resignation of Yuan. The elimination of the latter is evidently being prepared to take place as soon as complete control of situation is assured to Tuan and associates. Yuan has been offered asylum by the Japanese but has no intention to accept. Loyal cooperation of Tuan and Liang promise good results.