THE REVOLUTION.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1677, 22 December 1911, Page 2

THE REVOLUTION.

MOVEMENT TOWARDS PEACE

DEBATING THE PEACE PROPOSALS.

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[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Shanghai, December 21. bix Powers presented identical tinolhcial Notes to Wu Ting Fang and rang Shao Vi, urging the necessity ol a speedy understanding. Wu Ting Fang promised consideration of the matter, but declared that hasty peace, without securing the people's wishes, would probably lead to more serious outbreaks. At tho Peace Conference, Wu TinUang emphasised the necessity for establishing a republic, and declared that the Manchus would bo placed ou an oqualif- with the Clnue.se. TJiev did not wish to ill-treat them. Ting Shao Vi said ho was ready to accept Wu Ting Fang's view but must communicate with lho Ministry at Peking before replying. * ' A number of missionaries belonging to the China Inland Mission at Huuyai have reached Hankau. They wero escorted by revolutionaries to Chungking, where the escort repulsed a bandit attack, shooting twelve.

Tokio,. December 21. Tlie newspapers assert that Japan favours tho establishment of a constitutional monarchy in China.