CHINA'S TROUBLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 5

CHINA'S TROUBLES.

FOREIGNERS IN PEKIN, ARE IN SOIIE DAKGER. Press Association—By Te],—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 24. A correspondent has written that the fol'on of two thousand foreign tjoops in-Pelrinis insufficient, and if the Europeans aro isoriously attacked ihc result wiil be disastrous. The situation is very delicate, and the Powers aro relucl.mt to provoke an outbreak which might follow the reinforcement of the Legation guards. REPUBLICAN RESOUP.CE3. INCLUDE COIvDIANDEERING. PEKIN, Jan. 24. In view of the shortness of funds the? Republican Minster of War has demanded trora tho China Merchant Steam Navigation Company ien million taels; otherwise ilyj chips will lie commandeered and so'd. RAISING FUNDS. SALE OP ART TREASURES. Received 12.5 a.m., Jan. 20th. PII.UX, Jan. 20. The sale of Imperial art treasure-? hns commenced. Parisian dealers have purchased several million francs' -worth of pearls. THE TWO LEADERS. Sun Yat Sen undertakes to resign the Presidency if Yuan Sliiii Kai severs hia connection with the Jlanchus and publicly avows adherence to Republicanism, vrhoreupon ho would be elected President. Two thousand Imperial troops have revolted at Siang-yang.