CHINA UPSIDE DOWN.
HOSTILITY TO PRESIDENT.
WHY LOCAL LOAN FAILED.
1,000,000 UNPAID SOLDIERS.
SITUATION AT CANTON.
COWARDICE OF PATROLS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
(Received August 26. 10.10 p.m.)
London, August 26.. A Blue Book dealing with China during 1912 up to November last emphasises the bitterness of the Nationalist or Sun Yat Sen Party against Yuan Shih-kai, and their equal hostility to foreigners as shown by the persistent agitation against the foreign loan and the attempt to collect native subscriptions instead. The Blue Book shows that the failure of this attempt was partly due to patriotic subscribers contributing bad paper money issued during the revolution and not negotiable. Yuan Shih-kai estimated that 1,000,000 unpaid soldiery, who could get no work, were left armed after the revolution and distributed throughout China, with the result that a long series of mutinies and murders and looting resulted. A report from the senior British naval officer at Canton declares that the Chinese patrols are invariably met steaming as fast as possible away from any disturbance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9
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