THE CHINESE REVOLT.
SUN-YAT-SEN’S INFLUENCE ON THE CONFERENCE.
A FORCEFUL ELEMENT
(13V Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Shanghai. December 28. Sun-Yat-Sen’s arrival has uuroduccd a new and forceful element into the revolutionaries’ councils. Jt is understood that S.m-Vir.-Sen will be forthwith elected president of tho Provisional Government of the United Provinces of China, to form a Cabinet and to issue a proclamation embodying the terms offered to the Manchus and court in toe event of a peaceful surrender, failing which the campaign will proceed and Pekin be taken.
REVOLUTIONARIES’ METHOD OF RAISING FUNDS.
KOREAN PRINCE INTIMIDATED
Received 29, 8.5 a.m.) London, December 28. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Shanghai correspondent reports that the revolutionaries lured Prince Min, very wealthy, and formerly Crown Princ of Korea, from a. hotel in the French Concession, and compelled him to sign a big cheque for the revolutionary fund.
IS THE CROWN WILLING TO
ABDICATE,
A SIGNIFICANT SIGN,
(Received 29, 8.40 a.m.) Pekin, December 28. The Dowager-Empress, the Manghu Princess, and Yuan-Shih-Kai have decided to accept a fresh conference on a wider basis than that at Shanghai, and abide by its decisions. This is interpreted to mean that the Crown is willing to abdicate. INTERVIEW WITH NEW ZEALAND CONSUL.
(Per Press Association,!
Auckland, December 28. The Cliinse Consul (Mr. C. S. Lanchu), now on an official visit to Auckland, questioned as to the condition of the Chinese in New Zealand, said ho had found them progressing very peaceably, and it was an undoubted fact that since the appointment of the first consul a couple of years ago the feeling between the two peoples—Chinese' and New Zealanders—had improved in a marked degree. He did not think that the attitude towards exclusion was so marked as may have been the case before.
Asked if lio considered a greater number of Chinese might come to New Zealand, th.e consul replied, “Well, the position is this: China is a vast country, with a population of 400,000,000, «and as it becomes developed to greater advantage China will have need,for all her own people; therefore, tlie possibility of our people desiring to come to 'other countries in excessively largo numbers is quite remote.” I'*- - "'; : :
Wellington, ho said, was the largest centre of settlement so far as Chinese were concerned. In Auckland there were only forty or fifty Qhinesjo shops; this was exclusive of laundries.
In reference to the work of his predecessor (Mr. Hwang Chang Liang), now Consul-General for Australia, Mr. Lanchu said that they had been fol-low-students at college in New York arid at the Columbia University. This led up to a reference to the revolutionary movement in China, Mr. Lanchu remarking that some thousands of students had returned to China from American educational institutions during recent years, and with their more enlightened v views it was only natural that their sympathies should he with the reform movement. Further, they were backed by considerable financial resources, and they realised that the only hope of improving the old order was by means of a sweeping change in the methods of government. Mr. Lanchu said he did not know of any Chinese who had gone from New Zealand to assist, in the reform movement, hut it was possible that financial assistance had been given in some small degree; if so, it was quite in an unofficial manner.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 14, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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