AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

RIVAL GOVERNMENTS. YUAN SHIH KAI'S CABINET. REPUBLICANS' PROGRAMME. Dy Teleeraph—l?rcss Association—OoDJficul (Kec. November 17, 11.20 p.m.) Peking, November 17. In the new Cabinet formed by Yuan Sliih Kai, Liaug Tun Yen takes the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, General Wang Shis Cheng, War, and Admiral Sah, Marine. The Cabinet is considered satisfactory, though some of the ablest men in China have been omitted. Shanghai, November 17. The Republicans' programme includes the appointment of Sun Yet Sen as president. The representatives of the accessible provinces met and elected delegates to the Central Government, which is being established at Wuchang. Li Yuan Peng has urged tho consuls at Hnnkau to recognise the Federated States. The Taotai has notified his inability to pay a half-million taels duo in connection with tho Uusso-Freuch loan. IMPERIAL TROOPS REBEL. Pekin, November IG. The consuls roport that 30,000 of the Imperial troops at Hanchau have rebelled, and are now marching on Nanking after defeating a body of Nanking and Chinkiang troops at Chinkiang, on tho left hank of tha Yangtse. JAPAN AND THE REVOLUTION. The statement that "it is a perfectly reasonable inference to assume that Japan is behind this revolution" expresses more than General Dorward meant to convey in his remarks—published yesterday—to tho representative- of The Dominion, who interviewed him on Thursday on certain aspects of the revolution in China. The remark, which intimately connected Japan with tho present crisis, was prompted by a reference during the conversation to the fact that Manchuria had nroclaimed her autonomy, which led the General to observe that Manchuria could hardly have taken such a step without tho acquiescence cither tacit or expressed, of Japan, with which nation, tho General explained, Yuan Shih Kai is not in sympathy in tho sense that ho could be regarded as a political ally. Rather is tho man who raised the northern army to bo regarded as ono who has a proper understanding of tho strength of Japaneso influence in China and is in a position to gaugo the probabilities and extent of Japanese intervention. Tho immunity of the foreign residents from interference at the hands of either &ido would of course bo the factor which would determine tho question of intervention, and tho burden of protection -would bo assumed, if circumstances required it, bv Japan and tho United States?