THE POSITION IN CHINA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 432, 20 January 1912, Page 5

THE POSITION IN CHINA.

♦ ANABCI-IY PREVALENT. Uy Telegraph. - i'lTMs Assort a lion,- ( U ipyritfUt Pekin, January IS. The Sowerby relief mission lias arrived in Pekin from Shen-u, Shansi, and Honan.

It reports that anarchy and outlawry are rife, and that the revolutionaries and Imperialists are equally lawless. Many women have been brutally murdroed, and lowiih and villages are deserted, the inhabitants left alive hiding in eaves on the mountains. A mob at Sianfu surrounded the Beckman school, fired it, anil butchered the lleeing children with axes, spades, and spears. The city gates were closed for lour days whilet tho mob murdered 10,000. MANCIIUS SUBMIT. Shanghai, January IS. Negotiations for a peaceful settlement are being concluded. Thy Manehu princes arc prepared to accept tho Republican terms. YUAN'S ESCAPE. lYkin. January 18. Investigations show that wires were stretched across the street, forcing Yuan-Shih-Kai's guard to stop. The outriders dismounted and cu( the obstructions with their sword. Yuan-Shih-Kai'h escape wan due to the first bomb from the verandah fail ing to explode. A wounded oflicer and nine soldiert have died, whlie six soldiers are ir a critical condition. Forty have beer arrested. The executioner has strangled three of the assailants. GOVERNMENT AGREED UPON. Received January 20, 12.in a.m. London, Yesterday. Dr Morrison reports from l'ekinj that two edicts have been agroei upon; one giving Yuanshihkai lui jiowers to establish a Uepuhhcan Go vernnient. A conference oi seven teen provinces assembled at Nankin, will then elect him to thy Presidency Sunyatsen retiring after Yuanshit kai's acceptance. The Throne issue a second edict abdicating, but retail ing the title of Manehu Kmperoi Sunyatsen afterwards comes to Peki to confer respecting the formation c a Government. ~ihkai pr< poses that tho court bo granted li\ million taels annually.