CÆSAR OF CHINA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

CÆSAR OF CHINA.

YUAN SHIH KAFS BOAST. PEKING, November 9. . General Yuan Shih Kai's demand, that the promised reforms should be granted before, peace negotiations are entered upon, lias put the National Assembly in a dilemma. In a telegram tliat he has sent to Peking Yuan Shih Kai declares that ho is "Caesar of China."

The Manchus are. furious with the Government for tho efforts tho latter is making to cbnciliato the rebels, and under the pretence of forming a guard they have surrounded the Assembly's Chamber.

Despite rumors to the contrary the situation in Peking is* quiet. General Yaun Snih Kai is reported to be marching to tho capital with picked soldiers from the rebel army to enforce his demands for reform before treating with the revolutionaries.

Russian financiers l " havo arranged to advance the Viceroy of . ■ , Manchuria £500,000, -foi} which the latter has given as. security shares in the Russp-Asia,tic Bank iri Pelting.:,,' Further fighting took place' in Hankow after' tlio- arrival of. a large body of, native troops, from Hunen, which, immediately .gaye battle tto tho Imperialists wji-b had been, holding, the rebels, in check. The Imperial troops 'are sadly in" nefed of fresh supplies of amfriunition, none having arrived in Hankow since General Yuan Shih Kai opened the peace negotiations.

SHANGHAI, November 9. Wu-tihg-faftg, fbrriierly Chinese Ambassador iri 'Washington, who has definitely, announced himself a supporter of the rebels, has issued a statement,, in whiph he declares that a republic . represents tlie best of "all' .brins of govern- 1 mfci'it. : He 'Says" that "he is aware of the criticism that the,: Chinese are: riot ready) for. self-government, Jjuy . that the argu- 1 m ?ht, does not; see"m, ]a sound one.. ..As long as his couhtryhiep are denied the right -of governing themselves, so long will .they Tem_ui unprepared for it. The. Chinese monarchy emphatically declares Wilting: fang ... has failed. -...,. The city of Amby, which has been captured by the rebels, is in a" state of anarehy. As -tlie lives of the European residents are endangered warships are being rushed to. the island at full speed: The Consuls are devising plans for the protection of the foreign residents. Wu-lu-chen, who was recently appointed Governor \o£ Shensi fcrov'ince,, was attacked "by ; "thii'ty 'Jjaucliu. officers and literally .hacked to r death. , The murderers,'all of *\vlibm, \-fere, captured, thought that Wu-iu-cheri'haa been treating with the rebels. '*"* " '; '.A '' A.;A~A; , 9. .^yV^A I^'* Tie j n li 1E " of/ Bhtish tiroops /ape he j-S. m 7veadi>ies!j to proceed to/Tientsin, , ■■- T %' r VP-r r ?y pf .^'Nanking, who had <?W 9 r Wtpa Aiß li'Vfiat .with the rebels, b-ft conu^tted suicide, v ' • „ News comes jrom SJ^ffh'ai that the name,, Of the new ,, republic,, lias /been clmnged froriv Chung-hwa-^to Silicon. Ihe fovmer : name, .signifies: "Middle Flowe^Conntry;*' i tho .lattbr means Jv^M 1^ Ti'' Uo, # 'M*B,> «>e name -.P,P»* #uasty v i;uled; before fe *W* (>f ■ ■$¥ 3l«inchus „ * . ,*b e .situation 'hi Amoy, wjiich is ..now in the lianjls of. Tlip, Rebels, ha-s. slightly improved,. t ,4^oli^;;fbree ; of, 5^ men V ft W l **.^- 31 ?***'™*' •*- -v. t, ,4 he . P Ia, V' t of.-,**, ualt^paper called tho mmi> pj-h}ph j ;,^.« i .s 4 hsi ; 4^e4 ,by the + Uanchu , '*ovenime.nt; -was b|owiij ,.up .by -v^^-.Mr r fl&Wl_* 1 "'^ while the supposed rovoluticu^rv viftorval' .Peking wm WiPff'-:,^febj-a!tfU,. /471c rebel lia,;? had --been , ,fly,|*^g from -every, window 1 iii the city , ,e*^cept' 'those ,.of . v ,*the Serigpo office,. , Later.' oil, th'e '."uiaoageihcj-nt of the Paper hn«g, out tlie revolutionary fta.fr, : but it failed to', appease the mob, -which thereupon proceeded with its work of destruction, , • ; . ' . , .'-.' . 'TQKK"v Nov. 9. The Japanese --Wai*" Office- has- K-Mictiori-ed- the despatch' of a special corps of Red Cross -workers to Hankow, where medical ' aid' for the- wounded is much needed. -„.~...,,^^^ r ,„. ,„,._ ,..