TROUBLE IN CHINA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 8

TROUBLE IN CHINA.

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. The Pekin correspondent of the Japanese journal Asahi recently quoted • a ''Chinese authority" as saying that ; General Tang, the "Military Governor of Yunnan, stands in the same relation to the present outbreak as General Li Yuanhung did to the first revohi- . tion. As General Li was forced by his - followers to start a revolutionary ' movement against his will, so is Gen- • eral Tang. It is true that General ; Tsai was the Military Governor or > Yunnan for two years and a half and ) lias some influence in the province, but - that influence will prove as transient 3 as that of General Huan Hsin. The r role of Mr Liang Chichao, continues j this informant, will be as ineffectual ; as that of Dr Sun "Wen (Sun Vat-sen) ■ b in the last revolution. It will be build--1 ing a castle in the air to conceive of . 1 the coalition of Yunnan, Kweichau, < s Kwangsi, and Szechuan. The Governb . ment will first try to suppress the out-. ! break by conciliatory means, and only i' have recourse to arms in the last re- 1 3 sort. The sword, concludes the au- j i thority quoted, will settle the affair1 f completely m two months. j lj TREACHERY IN YUNNAN. I 51 It is now known that the Pekin' ' Government was tricked by the anti- j 3 Imperialists in Yunnan. It is stated j 1 that some time ago General Tang, the s Military Governor of Yunnan, who Avas l" believed to be a Yuanite, applied to 3 President Yuan for the remittance of • funds with which to buy over the anti- • Imperialists in Yunnan and neighbori hood. Accordingly, the Pekin Govern--1 ment remitted an enormous sum to j | Yunnan, but soon afterwards it receiv- j 2 ed a telegraphic communication from! , General Tang and Mr Jen, the In-j s spector-General of Yunnan, demanding j s the immediate abandonment of the Im- j I perialistic schemes. It turned out that I •, General Tang and Mr Jen, along with \ i, General Tsai, the Military ex-Governor i 3 of Yunnan, and General Li Lieh-chun,' -;the Military ex-Governor of Kiangsi,! s1 were bent upon rising tip in arms'with i v , the object of overthrowing the Yuan s Government. = Following the declaration of in- ! dependence by Yunnan, and the c, threatening manifestations in Riveie ] chau, another upheaval was, at the | ? i end of December; reported from Szes chuan.' It was stated that Jen Huai, ®, a notorious lieutenant of General' " ■ Hsiuno; Ivo-wu, ex-Commander of the s 2nd .Divison in Szechnan, had risen im " j revolt at the head of a strong gar- \ [ rison. The report stated that .though k; the Chinese authorities pretended that 6 the situation in the South was not I 1 serious, they aa ere unmistakably panic- ■" stricken. In view of the geographical : advantages of the of the outbreak, it Avas generally belieAred that the revolutionists in Yunnan, K/vvei-. cha,u, and Szechuan Avould be able to' take concerted action. The report added that there Avas no denying the fact that the situation in South China w.as extremely dangerous. I