The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1911. China's Revolt.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1674, 19 December 1911, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1911. China's Revolt.

Ihe news from China continues to bo more interesting and exciting, but just as unsatisfactory, as that from Tripoli, and the year is endino- in anything but a spirit of peace and goodwill amongst all men. Turkey is still marking time and leaving' all the fighting on her behalf to the Arabs whilst Italy is impoverishing herself at a most extravagant rate tor a country that can never repay her. China, whilst also to somo extent marking timo over the revolution, has had enough battles and skirmishes to keep up some semblance of warfare; although it is very difficult at this distance from the scat ot tho trouble and in the mixed condition of the reporting to tell how things are going. One day we aro told that the rebels are carrying all before them, and tho next that the imperial troops were recovering what they had lost. Last week Dr. Sun Yet Sen, who is credited with being the brain of the revolt against -the House of Manchu, arrived on the border of China, and onco ho gets into tho heart of the movement something solid is sure to happen. Soma rival, however, may be in a position to disputo tho leadership with Dr Sun, and there may be a republic with two presidents, in which occasion confusion will bo worse confounded and the -Mane-bus may continue in power. A lato report from lokio states that Britain and Japan are combining to make peace between the principals in the fight,, and that tho British and Japaiioso OonsulsGouoral at Shanghai would act as mediators m forthcoming negotiations between tho Imperialists and 'revolutionaries. This report, however, meets with an official doninl in London, but it is significantly added to the clonal that "it is impossible to issue a statement m regard to tho matter at present—ponding negotiations." Ifc is to bo hoped that "ponding negotiation" means all that it appears to suggest, and that tho New niay have a brighter outlook tor China than the oncoming Christmas season presents.