THE CHINESE REVOLT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 28, 16 January 1912, Page 5

THE CHINESE REVOLT.

THE DESIRE FOR ABDICATION UNANIMOUS. HORRORS IN THE INTERIOR. Pekin, January 15. The Mancliu soldiery and people at Pekin are determined to throw in their lot with the Chinese. Secret meetings of Mauohus of all classes accordingly decided that abdication was necessary to save the country from chaos. The Dowager-Empress recognised that the Government was powerless without a foreign loan. Yuan-Shih-Kai is now negotiating with the Powers, hoping that a loan s nrocnrable, provided the Throne abdicates. If the loan is not forthcoming, Yuan-Shih-Kai retires with the throne; otherwise ho remains. He has made the host arrangements possible. All the princes favour abdication. •The main problem is to ensure the security of their persons and property, and tbs payment of the pensions, particularly to a Manclm prince who draws 700,000 taels monthly. The Imperial family will retain tho family property and the ancestral temples. It is proposed the provisional government headquarters shall bo at Tientsin, as the Republican ministers fear to reside at Pekin. A telegram from the provinces gives shocking accounts of murders, rape, and arson. Hundreds of women are suiciding to escape assaults. Manv women, principally Mauohus. liavo thrown them pelves into wells at o.'-onpl to cs,enno violation. Murders, ami looting are of daily occurrence. Yuan-Shih-Kai, telegraphing and writing to Pong, states there wove wholesale suicides of women at Rsu.a.u ’an, tho bandits proclaimed it a Ropphlic. TUe Shanghai Revolutionaries are ■l'pi'inrf northwards by four routes. Twenty-five thousand have left A\ ucliauq. •?