CHINA'S NEW PRESIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14894, 20 January 1912, Page 7

CHINA'S NEW PRESIDENT.

SUN YIELDING TO YUAN, THE ABDICATION OUTLINED. THE EXCESSES OF ANARCHY. SOLDIERS AND MOB GUILTY. By Telegraph.— Association.— Copyright (Received January 20. 12.15 a.m.) Shanghai, January 18. Negotiations for a peaceful settlement are being concluded. "The Manchu princes are prepared to accept the Republican terms. CONFERENCE AT NANKING. (Received January 20. 12.15 a.m.) , London, January 19. The correspondent of the Times, Dr. Morrison, reports from Pekin it two edicts have been agreed upon. One ot them will give Yuan-shi-kai full powers to establish a Republican Government. A conference of 17 provinces will be assembled at Nanking, and will then elect him (Yuan) to the Presidency, Dr. Sun-yat-sen retiring from the Presidency after Yuan-shi-kai's acceptance of the office. The Throne will issue a second edict, announcing its abdication, but retaining the title of Manchu Emperor. v « Dr. Sun-yat-sen will afterwards come to Pekin to confer as to the formation of a Government. Yuan-shi-kai proposes that the Court be granted an allowance of 5,000,000 taels annually. RED RIOT IN THE PROVINCES. SIANFU DEATH-LIST 10,000. NEITHER SEX NOR AGE WAS SPARED. Pekin, January 18. The Sowerby relief mission has arrived in Pekin from the provinces of Shensi, Shansi, and Honan. It reports that anarchy and outlawry are rife, and that the revolutionaries and Imperialists are equally lawless. Many women have been brutally murdered, and towns and villages are deserted, the inhabitants left alive hiding in caves on the mountains. , A mob at Sianfu surrounded the Beckman school, fired it, and butchered the fleeing children with axes, spades, and spears. "the city gates were closed for four days while the mob murdered 10,000. ■ ■-■_. ' ' t ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION. %: —— WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS'. THREE ACCUSED EXECUTED. Pekin, January 18. J Further details of the attempted assassination of Yuan-shi-kai, while he was driving in the streets of the capital, show . that wireß were stretched across the street, forcing Yuan-shi-kai's guard to stop. The outriders preceding the carriage dismounted and cut the obstructions with their swords. Yuan-shi-kai's escape was due to the first bomb, thrown from a verandah, failing to explode. A wounded officer and nine soldiers have died, while six soldiers are in a critical condition. ~ Forty persons have been arrested. The executioner has strangled three of the assailants.