REFORM IN CHINA.
- FIRST STEPS. CONSULTATIVE COUNCILS. V A CONSTITUTION IN EMBRYO; ST TEMMIUrn—PRESS ■ ASSOOIATION-yCOPTItIOIIT. : -'; (Rec. Dec. 26, 9.5G p.m.) : ■' Pckin, December 26. An edict promulgate;! hero announces jkhat it is the- intontion of tho Government to gradually concede a constitution, embodying the ogod points of tho constitutions of foreign nations, whjio' , maintaining the national , civilisation.and moral teaching. As first stop's towards the creation of a Parliament, it'. is 'intended ■ to establish a Tse-chen-yuan, or ; Government Council, in Pekin; also' a' T&eryi-chu, or provincial deliberative assembly, in the various provinces. If tho decisions of the- Tse-yi-chu are considered good, they will,bq,submitted by the Governors of the provinces to the Tse-chcn-yuari'.. ';.: .' ■ : >----'y-,- •■.y: .■ ■'.:'•' . • : '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 79, 27 December 1907, Page 5
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112REFORM IN CHINA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 79, 27 December 1907, Page 5
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