YOUNG CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 5

YOUNG CHINA.

•''GOVERNMENT WARNS JAPAN-TRAINED' STUDENTS. BEWARE POLITICAL AGITATION. 81. TELEQE APII —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIQHI.' ' — (ltec. Dec. 27, 9.26 p.m.) Peklrii December 27. Owing to active, political agitation on the part of students returning from Japan, the Chinese Government threatens to punish teachers, of provincial sohools if they permit the ;students, to interfere in affairs of State. The. Government also threatens to expel nnruly students. . A cablegram published yesterday stated that the Chinese-Government was. embarking on_a ~<echem&-of.constitutional: reform by. .the estao-. lishment/ of' consultative administrative councils/', provincial 'and central,, the. latter to tie an embryonic form of a future parliament- as the -Yowig China party is almost certain to elaim'more than is given, the history ot tne Russian'Dumo and the Persian Parliament m« y possibly be repeated in China. The notcd luan-Shih-Kai ; is , the • present ' strong. man' in the empire,-.and his arrival in PeKin in was ithe'occasion- of ".an unusual scries of deliberations with rcgard j to the condition_of . the empire." A Pckin despatch states , lhe Government hopes that in a decade all n,ciol iistinctions (as \ between Manchus and .Chinese) will be: wiped out. The recent comet was the subject .of anxious discussion at yesterday s wuncil, and the' Court, is disturbed because it 1b universally believed in China that comets presage revolution. The Empress-Dowager is Failing rapidlv. . Iler; Majesty has had two 'vpoplectic strokes ;within the. past two years, in'd' Her . strength is' visibly . lessening. She, towever. contemplates. ; widespread changes in. <be/metropolitan government." v. • ' • ,