YUAN'S RENUNCIATION

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 June 1916, Page 2

YUAN'S RENUNCIATION

DOUBTFUL ATTITUDE OF HIGH OFFICIALS. (From London Times's Correspondent. i bhaniiai, March 'si. Whatever Peking may tfumk, 'eading Chinesus in Shanghai have little expectation th«t Yuan &hih Kai'e renunciation of the. Monarchy will appease the leaders of the revolt. The local Chinese are 111 a quandary, as while they have no sympathy with \ uan they fear that any substitute would prove merely a-tool in the hands of Japan. It is significant that Feng Kuo Chang, the able- commander-in-chiei of Nanking and) formerly Yuam'b right-hand riian (from whom he has been alienated by the distrustful attitude of Yuan, which has alienated so many old friends), refuses to acceDt the post of Chief of the ueneral Staff. It is said that Tuan Chi-jui will be given the post. Tuan made his mark Yuan's Minister of War in the revolution of 1913, but quarrelled \.vith him over the Monarchy question. The doings of Chi Ivuang, com-mander-in-chief of Kwangtung, are watched with great anxiety, as Lung is descended from a formerly prominent Yunnan aboriginal family, and served in the army> of the ex-viceroy Tsen Cliun Hsuan, who was one of Yuan's most inveterate enemies. He has a treble reason for not- lighting against the .Revolutionaries. At present, however, he certainly appears loyal, a«. though it is generally said that he would, already have joined the Revolutionaries but that they, dislike his method*. All the correspondents in the various soenes of operations agree in praising the admirable behaviour ol the Yunan. ese soJdders and in condemning that of the Northerners, who are described as brutal and' rapacious. Something of this, however, may tie due to differences of dialect, the Southerners having difficulty in understanding the Northerners'. Hence arise misunderstandings with shopkeepers. Accounts of battles emanating from Peking should be treated; with great caution. The Yunnanese certainly ap. pear to have retreated from Szediuan but I am assured •'That so tar there lias been little fighting worthy of the name. Amongst the latest ream its who flare enilisterl at Wellington in E. P. Lindsay . of Manakau.