THE CHINESE REPUBLIC

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 25

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC

TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT. REVOLUTIONARY MINISTERS. SOCIAL REVOLUTION. PEKING, April 2. A Belgian syndicate has handed 1.500,000 tacls to the Wuchang Government. The opposition to Tao-Yang-Shai is growing in North China. Dr Sun Yat Sen's provisional Government has vacated office. Dr Sun Yat Sen ■'iitends to devote himself to travelling in China, enlightening the people in regard Uj the principles of republicanism. April 3. The Assembly at Nanking has agreed to the transfer of the Government. It secured four revolutionary members in the Cabinet, compared with two of Yuan Shih-Kai's nominees. General Huang Sing, Minister of War in the Nanking Government, . has been appointed Chief of the Staff, with headquarters at Nanking. At a demonstration of revolutionaries it was resolved not to alkw a centralisation of power in the north, which would jeopardise the results already attained. April 4. Che-chi-mei, the Military Governor of Shanghai, declines a portfolio because its acceptance means his transfer from a post of high importance to a pc-ft of no importance. April 5. When interviewed at Shanghai, Dr Sun Yat Sen said that the greatest social revolution in history was commencing. Henry George's ideas were practicable on China's virgin soil, compared with the impracticability of their adoption ic Europe or America, where capitalist* controlled the money. Dr Sun Yat Sen added that he had obtained the Government's full consent, and would start on an immediate

propaganda. The Government would adopt the control of railways and mines, the single tax system, and, as far a possible. Freetrade. There is an unconfirmed report that Li Yuan Hung has been assassinated. TOKIO, April 4. The Japanese papers are pessimistic regarding the Chinese Cabinet. They declare that the bureaucrats hold important positions, and that the southerners are second-rate men, pliable and incapable. CALCUTTA, April 5. The Chinese Ambassador at Lhassa has hoisted the Republican flag, and the officials liave discarded queues and donned frock coats and tall hats. Tibet is now part of the Sze-chuan province. The Tibetans are preparing to exterminate the Chinese. LONDON, April 6. Renter's Peking correspondent 6tates that Dr Sun Yat Sen will be Li-yuan-hung's guest at Wuchang.