REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
YUAN-SHIH-KAI'S PIGTAIL CUT OFF
THE rUTURE CAPITAL.
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec, February 18, 5.5 p.m.) ' Peking, February 17. Yuan-Shih-Kai,' Provisional Administrator of tho Chinese- Republic, has cut off his pigtail, which ho retained while acting in connection with tho abdication of the Emperor. The Acting-Viceroy of Chi-li, a former Salt Commissioner at Tientsin, has lent Yuan-Shih-Kai ,£625,000 to meet immediate requiremeuts. The Republican Advisory Council has decided that tho scat of the Provisional Government shall be nt Nanking. Yuan-Shih-Kai deprecates leaving Peking. During the insurrection outside Weihniwei a hundred and fifty revolutionaries were Wiled. WELLINGTON REJOICINGS. The Young China Party in Melbourne, we are informed by a spokesman of tho Chinese community in Wellington, received a few days ago a cable message from the Provisional Government in Nankins, stating that the Emperor had abdicated, and that tho Chines* had derided to observe February 5 as n general holiday for rejoicing. Our informant said, that the message having been communicated to the Chinese in Wellington only on Thursday afternoon (too late to observe a general holiday on that day), the Chinese throughout New Zealand will observe the holiday to-dny. Their shops trill bo closed, and there will be feasting.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 5
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201REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 5
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