MORE TROUBLE FOR CHINA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

MORE TROUBLE FOR CHINA.

LONDON,; May 15. ! The' Chinese ■ tixjops at: Tientsin are greatly dissatisfied with their present, conditions, arid serious apprehension is felt atT'thc possibility of a rising. . A Peking message states 'that an unknowi^ass'assin made an attempt on the life dSjthe- six^years-oidv ex-Emperor, at whom he fired a shot through one of the windows, o'f the palace. The child, narrowly 5 . jßscaped- . being. . killed. Advices from,, ' China report that -.the retirement of ihe Premier, Tang Shao Vi, is imminent.

A message from Tientsin reports that international-, troops are patrolling the native quarter of the town, m view of the possibility of a rising;. PEKING, May 15. . The Minister, of Finance and "the foreign bankers have arranged the terms on which the Government is to secure aloan of £10^000,000. The money is to be f-ecurod by Treasury bills, and 1 is to be repayable within -a -year by the proceeds of the loan.

Foreign and Chinese auditors will supervise all' expenditure sanctioned by President Yuan Shih Kai and the National Council.. \

j The completion of the arrangements practically means the defeat of the Premier Tan-r Shao Vi, who strongly opposed the loan. It Is argued by those who have advocated the loan that the country is a veritable powder magazine, and that an explosion can be avoided only by payments to the soldiers. HONG KONG, May 15. ,

Executions are the order of the day on t'ho West River, where a vigorous campaign is being carried out against pirates. The authoritdes' are determined to exterminate these dangerous ruffians. Those who are caught stealing even the most trifling sums are shot on the spot, and the bodies of hundreds of culprits who have been thus summarily disposed of may be seen daily floating near the banks' of the river.

Foreign residents expect • a fresh outbreak of anarchy now that the Government funels have beeii depleted. - Thousands of Chinese soldiers >vho wei|e stationed north of Swatow are returning to Canton. lit is feared that serious labor troubles will follow the disbanding of the. troops.