REMARKABLE NOTE.
YUAN SHIH-KAI CHAMPION OF THE 11ANCHT7S. EMPEROR'S ABDICATION DEMANDED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. PEKIN, 28th January. Dr. Sun Vat Sen, Provisional President of the Chinese Republic, has issued a iwni&rkakle Note^ to the Powers stigmatising Yuan Shih-Kai as the champion of the Manchus. * General Wu*teng-fang has telegraphed demanding the Emperor's abdication, otherwise hostilities will result to-day. General Lu-juan-kai is preparing to lead the Wu-ehang revolutionaries northwards, and Yuan Shih-Kai is endeavouring to secure the extension of the armistice. Seven thousand of Yuan Shih-Kai' s trootifl have reached Pekin, thereby removing the Manchu menace. Tieh-liang has fled from Tientsin. It ie understood that the memorial presented by the generals imprMsefi upon the Throne the inadvisability of contemplating immediate abdication. Advanced posts, numbering several thousand men on each side, were engaged in a conflict on Saturday along Tien-tsin-Pukow railway. The revolutionaries .retreated, abandoning their camp.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7
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146REMARKABLE NOTE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7
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