CHINA'S CIVIL WAR.
QUEUES TO COME OFF. By TeleErauh-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. December 9, 0.50 a.m.) Peking, December 8. An Imperial Edict has sanctioned the cutting off of the queues and has ordered Cabinet to deviso the means for adopting llio Western calender.
THE ANGLO-GERMAN LOAN. Peking, December 7. Tho Revolutionaries at Shanghai haye paid a quota equivalent to tho likin (Customs) collections, thus ensuring tho payment of tho monthly instalment of interest on the Anglo-German loan.
REGENT BLAMES HIMSELF. Peking, December 7. An Imperial Edict announces that tho Regent blamed himself for tho upheaval in China, and bogged to bo relieved of tho Regcntship. Ho has been granted a retirement pension of fifty thousand taols (about ,£15,000). The Edict adds that hereafter all responsibility for political affairs will bo entrusted to tho Premier and the Cabinet, while the DowagerEmpress will bo associated with tho Emperor in the promulgation'of decrees and at State functions.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 5
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