CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10959, 27 December 1911, Page 5

CHINESE REPUBLIC.

CONFERENCE DESTINED TO FAILURE.

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Received December 26. at 0.4(1 a.nu London, December Official circles in London deny that Britain and Japan arc c .w.per:it'n<i «it i a view to the maintenance of the monarchical government m China. V'fjf..: forts of Britain and the other 1 one..-, are directed to assisting China to secure an efficient Government based on popular approval. Renters Pekin correspondent reports that the Government fears that the conference at Shanghai will fail. " sides are making use of the armistice to strengthen their military positions. It- is stated that the rebels are preparing to march northward via rukow. Advices from Shanghai state that Ynan-shi-kai's hesitation to summon the National Convention is the groundless fear of an Anglo-Japanese crusade in support of the dynasty. Shanghai. December '2->. Five thousand Cantonese troops have reinforced the revolutionaries, and 15.000-more are getting ready. The conference will be resumed tomorrow. Sun-Yat-Sen will arrive to-day. Received December 26, at 4 p.m. Tokio, December 25. An extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet and Elder Statesmen considered the situation in China, and General Shiba. the Japanese commander at Pekin during the Boxer rising, has been summoned to Tokio.

Received December 27, at- 9.50 a.m. Melbourne, December 27. The Young China League has forwarded a letter to the Chinese ConsulGeneral stating that he shows exceeding disrespect for the republican feeling of the Chinese residents in Australia in hoisting the dragon flag on receipt of reports of Imperial victories, and suggesting that if the Consul wishes to remain a servitor under the Manclius lie should return to Pekin immediately, where he might be able to render more service when the Republican army marches triumphantly into that city. Received December '2/, at 9.30 a.m. Pekin, December 26. _ The revolution is triumphant in twelvt> provinces and chaos reigns in three others, while the loyalty of Chilli, Honan, and _ Shantung . are shaken and the Imperial antbority lias virtually disappeared in Mongolia and Central Asia. The Republicans at Shanghai -demand an immediate reply from Yuan-slii-kai; otherwise they will elect Sun-yat-sen President.