CRISIS IN CHINA
LATEST CABLES
UNPAID .SOLDIERS IN REVOLT.
FOREIGN FINANCIERS APPEALED TO.-
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PEKING, June 18. ' Tung-Shao-Yi has secretly fled to Tientsin. ,
He explains that he intends to retire as he lyis lost the .confidence of foreigners as to his hold on Ins party. Yuan-Shih-Kai and others are urging him to reconsider his decision.
The Manchu division quartered at the Summer Palace started for Peking to demand pay. , Yuan-Shih-Kai’s troops intercepted them and quelled the outbreak, and arrested the leaders. There is unrest at Shansemsi and Shantung, which threatens to develop into outbreaks unless the troops are paid. Government has appealed to international financiers to advance 3.000.000 taels to avert a crisis.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE GIVEN International financiers have advance! 3,000,000 taels., *
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1912, Page 6
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