MANCHUS MUST GO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 123, 21 November 1911, Page 7

MANCHUS MUST GO.

REPUBLICANS ENTHUSIASTIC RESOLUTE OPPOSITION. COURT SHOULD QUIT CHINA. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. PEKIN, 20fch November. General Yuan Shih-Kai's envoy at Wuchang reports that the Republicans are enthusiastic and resolutely opposed to the Monarchy, and insist on the Manchu Court quitting China. A proper movement, they say, would be the Court's voluntary exile to Jehol, thus strengthening the promoters to recognise the national convocation recently summoned. If is. impracticable to suggest a convention of the Monarchial and Republican sections to decide *as to China's future. . > It is rumoured at Tientsin that the foreigners at Si-ngan-f u, capital of the Province of Shen-si, have been massacred. .".'"'''' < JAPANESE PRESS VIEWS. UNFRIENDLY TO CHINESE CABINET. TOKIO, 20th November. The tone of the newspapers' is unfriendly to the Chinese Cabinet. The Hochi. Shimbun (the most" influential Japanese journal) declares that Yuan Shih-Kai is pledged to a pro-German, pro-American policy. * v ' . NOTES ON THE CABLES. Jehol, or Yehoe, is in Mongolia, beyond the Great Wall. It is the native country of the Manchus. At Jehol, in 1791, Lord Macartney, British Ambassador, presented his credential* to the Imperial Court. The Ambassador was received with great honour on arrival at Canton,, but when he was on board a vessel bound for Pekin the ship carried a flag, which had been hoisted by Chinese officials, setting forth in the native characters that the distinguished passenger was a "Tribute Bearer from the Country of England." On being conducted into the presence'of the Emperor,' Chienlung, or Keen Ltfng, Lord Macartney was urged td do kotow, viz., to_ make.' obeisance iil the fashion of a tributary or conquered chief. He consented' only on one condition—that the Court'should do obeisence to a portrait of George 111. This they declined to do. Lord Macartney then made the bow which he was accustomed to make to his own Sovereign, and then returned to Pekin as he had come, over the rough, mountainous country of Mongolia in an English coach and four. Commercially, the mission was a failure. The rumour from Tientsin that a massacre of foreigners has taken place at Si-ngan-fu requires further confirmation before acceptance. Probably the only Europeans there are those connected with the railway and missionaries. It was to this city that the late Dow ager-Empress and the Emperor and Court fled when the allied troops entered Pekin, having driven off trie besieging Chinese troops from the Lega« tions in 1900, Si-ngan-fu is on the route of the Anglo-Italian Syndicate's railway, linking up with the Pekin Syndicate s line. It. passes through a rich iraning district. ,