DISTRUST IN CHINA.
MINISTERS AFRAID TO GO NORTHA BELLICOSE COMMANDER. By Telegraph-Press Aesaciation-Copyrielit (Eec. April 15, 11.30 p.m.) Nanking, April 15. The President, Yuan-Shih-Kai has entrusted General Huang-Using, who was Minister for War in tho Nankins Republicans' Provisional Government, with tho restoration of order and tho control of civil and military affairs. The President's action is interpreted as indicating that he. does not desire to risk a rupture with tho south, and also as a tacit acknowledgment that the southern authorities are not prepared to dissolve their military organisation. Three hundred people were killed in the mutiny at Nanking. Martial law has now been established. Several Ministers have refused their portfolios; The Revolutionary members of the Government are reluctant to proceed to' Peking. Changhsan, the ex-Imperiahst commander of Southern Shantung, has recruited 14,000 men, .and hns refused to deliver a million dollars worth of British Tolling-stock for tho railways unless guaranteed that the railway will not bo used for tho transport of Republican, troops.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1415, 16 April 1912, Page 7
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164DISTRUST IN CHINA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1415, 16 April 1912, Page 7
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