ALL BROTHERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10551, 6 February 1912, Page 5

ALL BROTHERS

CHINESE REVOLT ENDING ' QUESTION OFTHE CAPITAL. (Received Lust Night,' 0.30 o'clock.) PEKIN, February 5. General Yuan Shih Kai is endeavouring to persuade the Nanking Government to remit control to enable him to administer the whole of China until the National Convention, frames a constitution and appoints a permanent Government. -' The Republicans favour two provisional Governments carrying on temporarily. Yuan Shih Kai is opposed to the transfer of the capital. He advocates a .convention for a'month. Chinese Republicans'insist on-Nan-kin* a* the most suitable capital, and renew their offers of the Presidency to Yuan Shih Kai. Ma.ny Imperial Princes have quitted Pekin. . ~ Feng Kuo Chang, commander . ot ' the Imperial Guards, has persuaded . the Manchu troops to join the Republic Prominent Imperial Generals have Telegraphed to Republican Generals that all, are now brothers, and that 'further bloodshed is useless.

DR. SUN YAT SEN INTER; VIEWED.

, (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.)

NANKING, February 5,

.Dr. S-un Yat Sen, in an interview, declared that he would resign immediately Yuan Shih Kai declared himself ,a Republican. He added that the provisional Government should continue in office-fora-year, hut be prepared to delegate their authority to Yuan Bihih Kai% ; the control of the Northern Provinces.