CHINESE SEVoLT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1912, Page 5

CHINESE SEVoLT.

ABDICATION- DECIDED 'ON

["PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received 'Jan. 16, 8 a:mi)

FEKIN, Jan.

The Manehu soldiery and people .sit 'Pekin determined to throw their lot in with the Chinese, and secret meetTings of Manchus of all classes accord-

ingly. decided that abdication was

■ necessary to save the country 'from cchaos. The Dowager Empress reeogniseoj that the Government was ■powerless without a foreign loan. Yuan-shi-kai is now negotiating with 'tne r Powers, hoping .'that a' loaaa mill be procurable if ccoatiaigent npom rab•Sication. If it is 'forthoomiHg Tuan- : sh£-kai will retire .with the Throne; ■otherwise he will remain ; and . make • th« t best ■ arrangement • possible. : 'All th© princes favor afe^ication. *

Theinain. problemis to ensurei the ?secnrity>iof persons- ttnd' property atiH the payment o? pensions.

, The 'Imperial:? family will retain, the rfamily property amKl • amcefctral tetaa;ples '

It'is proposed that: the "Provisional f-Government's headquarters will be.at "Tientsin, as thef Republican' Ministers :iear{-'feo:jgo to Pekin. • • •

A 'telegram from "the provincee ; gives shocking accoinits 6i 'mur'dens, rape, and arson. 'Hundreds of 'Women are eommitting^auicide to ©s- . dape from assaults, and; many •women, ■principally 'Manfehus/ have thrown themselves in "the ww^lls .at :Shensi tto escape vidlAtion. Mur4'^ders and' looting are of "daily noccurjx«nce. .