THE CHINESE REVOLUTION.

Mataura Ensign, 27 January 1912, Page 5

THE CHINESE REVOLUTION.

PRESIDENT AND PREMIER.

BY ELECTBIO TELEGRAPH. COPYEIGHT. FEB. UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION. Ueceived January 27, 11.5 a.m. SHANGHAI, Jan. 26. Dr Sun-Yat-Sen (Provisional President) in a friendly message to Marquis Ynan-Shih-Kai (Premier) clears up their recent misunderstanding. CERMAN ARMAMENTS. BOUND FOR PEKIN. Received January 27, 11.5 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 26. Twenty thousand rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition from Germany have passed through Russia for Pekin. CONFLICTING INTERESTS. _♦ THE COLONIAL POLICY. TARIFF REFORM. BX ELECTRIC TELEGBAPH.—COPTBIGHT. PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 27, 8 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 26. i Mr" L. V. Harcourt (Secretary of (State f6ff/the (Colonies), speaking at Bacup,-dfid no one at the Imperial Conference suggested that the fiscal policy should he altered for their profit to the Snjury of the working classes of Great Britain. If there was a danger of losing the colonies without another tariff then they would lose them anyway, because whatever causes of friction might exist with the colonies— and he knew none—they would be increased a hundredfold by haggling between State and State and trade and trade through conflicting interests.