CHINESE REPUBLIC.
PROVISION A L Gt)^ER N M ENT URGED. FURTHER BLOODSHED USELESS. [press association—copyright.) Peking. !•'«-}». 5. Yuan Shih Kai i* < eui ing to persuade the Nanking Government to remit their control as to enable him to admini."t(r the whole of China until the National Convention frames a constitution and appointa permanent Government. The Re publicans favour pro provi*ional governments to can.', on temporarily. Yuan Shih Kai is opposed to tin transfer of the capital and a<hocatc= a convention for a month. China Republicans m*i*t that Nanking is the most suitable capital, and renew their offers of the presidency to Yuan Shih Kai. Many of the Imperial princes have quitted Peking. Feng-kuo-chang. commander of the Imperial Gv.atds. persuaded the Manchu troops to join the Republic. Prominent Imperial generals have telegraphed to the Republican generals that all are now brothers and that further bloodshed is useless. SUN YAT SEN S POSITION. Nanking. Feb. . Sun Yat Sen. in an interview, declared he would resign immediately Yuan Shih Kai declared himself ■ Republican. He added that the Provisional Government should continue for a year, but were prepared to delegate their authority to Yuan Shih Kai for the control of ihe northern provinces.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 45, 6 February 1912, Page 6
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