THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1331, 8 January 1912, Page 5

THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA.

THE ELECTIONS. POSSIBLE DIVISION OF THE ' EMPIRE. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Gosyrieul Peking. January 5. The Government is directing elections for the National Convention in the northern provinces of Turkestan, Tibet, and Mongolia. The Republicans aro organising in tho south. This arrangement suggests the possibility of a division of the Empire in the absence of an agreement by tho convention. THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT. Peking. January 5. Router's correspondent at Nanking states that Sun Yat Sen has received a courteous letter from Yuan-Shih-Kai, thanking him for the offer of tho position of President of tho Republic, and declaring that the entire peoplo should bo permitted to decide the form of Government. BRIGANDS ACTIVE. , Peking, January 5. Brigands control Tniyuan. Thirty Italian priests and two foreign residents are in jeopardy.-/ The Italian and British Ministers arc endeavouring to persuade General Yuan-Shih-Kai to send troops. VICEROY AND GENERAL EXECUTED." 'Peking, January 5. Consular advices state that revolutionaries executed the Viceroy of Chaoerfeng, and Tien, an Imperialist general. ACTION' BY THE POWERS. (Rcc. ' January ; 8, 1.5 a.m.) Peking, January 7. The Powers have occupied tho railway from Peking to tho sea.