MANCHU MURDER LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 15

MANCHU MURDER LEAGUE.

REWARDS FOR KILLING CHINESE leaders. STARTLING STORY. The news of a great conspiracy is forwarded to London by the Exchange Telegraph Company's special correspondent at J-ii-ntsia, from which it appears that what ir c" 11 as 11 "-Determined to Die" Antillaii, Swiety, composed of 7(10 of the wealthier and more influential Manchus, has been formed with the object of assassinating the CO odd provisional head men _in tlw already declared Republican provinces, }>'or the attainment of this objoct three different classes of rewards-are offered in proportion to the value of the person murdered. The first-class reward of .€20,000 will bo given foi I he murder of Dr. Sun Yat Son, Li Yuan Ifeng. and several others. The lite \V,i Tin Chien, who was murdered, was also included in the list. Tho second-class reward is of ,£COOO, and will he given for the murder of I/m Tien Wei, Tang Chin, Wu Hung Chung, and others. The third-class reward is of .£2OOO, for the miirdor of Shan Tung Wu, Yang Tao, and others. The chief reward of nil is ,£200,000 for the body of Yuan Sliih Kai, but they do not requiro to murder him at present, and propose waiting until tranquillity is restored to the Manchu Government. Tho Prince K-egcnt and Prinoo Ching were, it is stated, advised of this movement., but did not make any real effort to stop it. and the 700 Manchiis and bannermen are now distributed all over tho IS provinces.

The "China Times," which exposes the conspiracy, says the whole thing has been brought into tho glare of publicity by » purebred Chines named Chang, a native of Shantung, whose''father was a poor hawker in Peking, and who sold Chang to a Peking Manehn, by whom he wa.s adopted at 5 years of' age. Tie is now. 27 years of aire. He spant '2 years with his Manehn adontvd parents and rose to be a captain in the Imperial Bodyguard, having graduated in the military college, lly means of exercising some cunning, and knowing his Han origin, he mannued to join what tho paper calls "these disciples of the devil," and having obtained ,£MO from them he ran away to Tientsin with his family. The paper concludes: Such is the way high Manchus interpret edicts ordering the fusion of the Manchu and the n.in races. Can any sane person be.lieve that there is. the faintest semblance ef sincerity in the edicts that have been issued? We are unable to, and the Almighty above knows.-