POLITICS IN CHINA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13070, 9 May 1913, Page 3

POLITICS IN CHINA.

TUMULT IN THE HOUSE

(Press Assn.—By Telegraph— Copyright.) PEKING, May 8. The Senate and the House of Representatives are unable /to agree on the loan question. The Opposition caused; a tumult in the House and Government supporters, withdrew. PEKING, April 8. China too seems in a perilous state which can not be igored. The large European interests in that countiy in-%" vest its internal affairs' with"" painful. """' importance. The disappearance of the Manchu dynasty seems likely to plunge , the country into a long series of domestic difficulties which may lead to civil war which again would inevitably result in dismemberment, with hideous inter- ■■ •national difficulties. The opening of Parliament is not likely to precipitate the crisis. On the'" one hand the Sun Yet -Sen coalition . . party has a huge majority. On the' other hand, Yuan Shih Kai, though in - the minority, has a great tactical ad- ' -,' I vantage and is guided by a, very definite policy. Yuan is determined to establish himself as dictator even if he has ' to use violence. The assassination of V i Lung and the -virtual imprisonment of Tang, both 1 - democratic supporters of Sun Yat Sen, indicate that the ruling | clique will stick at nothing. Added to this General Chang, was is an Imperial- : ist, although in the service of the Republic, watches near Pekin with a large . , army and supports the Yuan policy, ; probably with the aim of advancing ! the -interests of the deposed dynasty by creating discords among its opponents or perhaps with the idea of becom-7 ing a second Cromwell. The leader of the coalition may fear to come to Peking, in which-case Parliament may not meet, or may meet in a i form carefully expurgated by Yuan, and • Chang. The Chinese position is, therefore critical *and even menacing. LONDON, May 2. Commenting on the new Uhinese loan, the Russian semi-official press suggests that the establishment of order in JCnina may serve '• as a basis of recognition of I the republic by the Powers.