TROUBLE LOOMING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1741, 5 May 1913, Page 5

TROUBLE LOOMING.

IN CHINA. APPEAL BY DR. SUN YAT SEN. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Oopyrislit (Eec. May i, 5.5 p.m.) Peking, May i. Dr. Sun Ynt Son has telegraphed to Europe an urgent appeal to the bankers concerned in the floating of the ■ loan to withhold the fund 9 from the Government at Peking. He accuses the Government of cdmplicity in the murder ofr'SUhg, EduQ#tion,,|!md adds that the funds- would' be spent in waging war on the people. Til© absence of funds ■ would induce the Government to effect a compromise. Yunn-Shih-Kai, the President, in the hope of checking .the agitation in the south, is moving troops thither. General Chuang Chun has been ordered to occupy Nanking, and General Hu-hao-san, witli 12,000 troops, is preparing to advance on. Shanghai. [A recent cable message stated that tho Chinese loan of twenty-five million sterling, bearing interest at 5 per cent., had been duly sighed. Two million was to be advanced before the itotation. The deputies of tho Knomingtang, or Southern Party in the Chinese Parliament were peeking to cancel the loan. Advices from Shanghai wero to the effect that Dr. Sun Yat Sen warned the Consuls th/it thS completion of the loan without reference to the National Assembly would provoke a breach .between the North and Soutli leaders. The Knomingtang declared that the South would repudiate the loan, and Bffht unless Yuan-Sljih-Ivoi retired.]