CHINA'S CIVIL WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1342, 20 January 1912, Page 5

CHINA'S CIVIL WAR.

— TWO EDICTS. ESTABLISHMENT OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. ANARCHY AND MASSACRE. Bi lelecrarh—Press Association—OoryrJcht (Rec. January 20. 0.15 a.m.) London, January .19. _ The "Times" correspondent (Dr. Morrison) reports from Peking that two edicts have' been agreed upon; one giving Yuan Sliili Kai full power to establish a Republican Government. Tho conference of tho seventeen provinces assembled at Nanking is then to elect him to tho Presidency, Sun Tat Sen retiring after Yuan Shih Kai's acceptance. The Throne issues a second edict announcing its abdication, but retaining the title of Manchu Emperor. Sun Yat Sen will afterwards go to Peking to confer oa to the formation of a Government. Yuan Shih Kai proposes that the Court should bo granted five million taols annually. WOMEN BRUTALLY MURDERED. CHILDREN BUTCHERED. Peking, January 18. Tho Sowerdy relief mission has arrived at Peking from Shensi, Shansi, and Honan. They bring reports* of anarchy and outlawry by tho revolutionaries. Tho Impo-ialists are equally lawless. Many women were brutally murdered, and towns and villages l|avo been deserted by the inhabitants, who are hiding in caves in tho mountains. . The mob at Sian-fu surrounded the Beckman School and sot fire to it, and then butcbenxl tho fleeing children with axes, spades, and spears , Tho city gates wero closed for four days while the mob murdered ten thousand. The executioner strangled three of the men who were concerned in thj attempt to tako tho lifo of General Yuan Shih Kai when he was returning to his quarters from the Imperial Palace. NEARING PEACE. Shanghai, January 18. Negotiations for a peaceful settlement are near conclusion. The Manchu princes are prepared to accept tho Republican torms.