CHINA.
"GREATEST SOCIAL REVOLUTION IN HISTORY." STATE CONTROL, SIMILE TAX, AND FREE TRADE. By Telegraph-Press Associiution-Oopyriglit Peking, April 5. Dr. Sun Vat Sen, interviewed at Shanghai, said the greatest t-ociai revolution in history was commencing. Henry George's ideas wem practicable with China's virgin soil as compared with the. impracticability of Europe ur America, where the capitalists control the money. ' Dr. Sun Yat Son adds that lie lias obtained from the Government full consent to start an immediate propaganda. Tho Government will adopt control of the railways and mines, a single tax system, and, as far as possible, free trade.
GENERAL LI YUAN HUNG. REPORTED ASSASSINATION. Peking, April 5. There is an unconfirmed report that General Li Yuan Hung, vice-President of the Republic, has been assassinated, (Rec. April 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 6. Router's Peking correspondent states that Dr. Sun Yat Sen is General Li Yuan Hung's guest at Wuchang. FROCK COATS AND TALL HATS. TROUBLE BREWING IN TIBET. Calcutta, April 5. The Chinese Ambassador at Lhassa has hoisted the liepublican (lag, and the oßicials have discarded their queues and donned frock coats and tall hats. Tibet is now part of the Szechuan Province. The Tibetans are preparing to exterminate the Chinese.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1408, 8 April 1912, Page 5
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