JOY IN PEKIN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 283, 28 November 1911, Page 5

JOY IN PEKIN.

CONSTITUTION PROCLAIMED. THE REGENTS OATH TO THE SHADES OF HIS FATHERS. (By Cable.—Prcus Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.50 a.m.) PEKIN, November 27. Imperial flags are flying throughout Pekin to show the people's joy at the establishment of the Constitution. The Regent, on behalf of the Emperor, has taken an oath to the shades of the Imperial ancestors to uphold the Constitution and to organise a Parliament excluding the nobles. The Imperialists captured two forts near Hanyang. Yuan-shih-kai has failed to form a Cabinet. Only a few minor po3ts have been filled. He is only prevented from returning home by the knowledge that his departure would create a panic, and would precipitate an outbreak of the Manchus, who are in a desperate state. The revolutionaries are bombarding Nan-king. Eight hundred Imperialists have been killed. Rebel reinforcements have reached Nan-king from Shanghai. They include 12 women, headed by the widow of a soldier who was killed in the Nan-king mutiny in 1908. MORE JAPANESE TROOPS. (Received 11.10 a.m.) TOKYO, November 27. Japan is sending a battalion of infantry and a machine gun detachment to reinforce the Tientsin and Pckin garrisons. A cable received in Australia last week stated that the landing of Japanese troops at Chefoo is viewed with distinct disfavour by the United States. Foreigners in China are now in serious danger. Following so closely on the Mikado's request that his Government should be deputed to act for the other Powers, the landing of the Japanese party is regarded as the most startling development since the rebellion broke out. Japan demands that the Powers should place their interests in the hands of the Mikado. In diplomatic circles this is interpreted to mean that Japan is unwilling to see any other nation secure too firm a foothold in what the Emperor considers his special field of influence. The Chefoo landing is therefore accepted as a definite attempt on the part of Japan to forest-all her American rivals before they have time to repudiate the Mikado's offer. The anti-foreign feeling is growing throughout China, and ail diplomats agree that the situation is one fraught with serious consequences. The United States is expected to retaliate, in which event it is feared that trouble with Japan will occur. The missing of American troops and the concentration of warships are pointed to as proof thai America is determined to dominate the situation, and Japan, it is thought, may strike an unexpected blow at any time. The landing of troops by other Powers is now considered inevitable. Mr. \Y. J. Calhoun. United States Minister in China, has ordered all American subjects to take refuge in the treaty ports immediately. Miist of the American residents, however, were already on their wav to places of safety before the command of the Government became known, as their own opinion is that trouble with Japan is inevitable.