GRAVE SITUATION IN CHINA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12826, 27 July 1912, Page 5

GRAVE SITUATION IN CHINA.

(Press Assa.— By Telegrftph.-fCopyright.}

, PEKING, ,July 26. Militarists urge Yuan Shih Kai (President) m the event of the: Assembly's continued obstruction, to establish a military dictatorship. The Legations, consider that the situation ■is ( growing worse., ' . - .

PEKING Jufy 20. Dr. Sun Vat Sen and other- leaders of th,e Tung-Minhui/ realising the hopelessness of their scheme for 'the overthrow or President Yuan ShiK Kaf by opposition to the big loan, are 1 now endeavoring , to avert the threatened collapse of their. party by inducing Qther political factions to dissolve and to become reunited under a new title. Dr. Sun Vat Sen <has made personal overtures to the .Democrats, and has ' admitted. %atthb 'Tung Minhui is nearing its ejra,.!3because of the lack of popular supp6rt^llf the Democrats agree to throw hi Jjwetr lot ,with , the others, opposition r td'lhe; 1 loaii willrsubside, and the PresiSe^tV^ill bi& permitted to enter updn^a foiwarS policy. The Government ! i^/i,t L *r6s'eji> engaged m the task of •re'dticmg thb arjny to two-fifths of the^'strength that was maintained during Yhe fferiocl ih which 1 the revolutionary struggjefcwas a;t its • height. When the Cabinet, jdecided upon the extent to which the re.ductiojji sciould be" carried out it did not«kno^ definitely what the size of th^' military establishment 'was, but it was estimated that it totalled about 1,000,000. S& hundred thousand troops are accordingly being mustered out m batches of from 10,000 to 50,Q00, the intention being & retain 400,000 permanent soldiers. President Yuan Shi Kai's idea is to makjfr the reduction only, temporary, and to ihcrease the -.strength of the army trom time to time as the. finances of the couiitry Tvill aidmit, until a system of universal training prevails. !'. ! , !