CHINESE REVOLT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 9 January 1912, Page 5

CHINESE REVOLT.

o OVER FOUR MILLION PEOPLE DESTITUTE. RELIEF FUNDS WANTED. (Received 9,8.2 d a.m.) Shanghai, January 8. The Famine Relief Committee is appealing for funds to employ sufferers on flood prevention works. A total of 3,750,000 are destitute in the Northern Kiangsu, Anhus, Southern Shantung, and Hananwuhu regions. MANOHUS’ POWER ENDED. A letter received by a Wanganui resident from a gentleman of thirty years’ residence in China,, states that tilings in that country generally are in a bad state at present. “It is bard to say,” the writer proceeds, “what the end of this revolutionary movement may be, but the country cannot revert to a worse state than it lias been in for ages past. There is. one thing certain, that even if the Republican movement docs not succeed, the Manchu Court or nobles will never again have much say in the government of the country. The Chinese are more united in their present movement than I have ever seen them before. They mean business, and the svmpatliv of the world 's with them. Personally, I am of opinion that ultimately things will resolve themselves into a limited monarchy and constitutional government, which will bo led by China’s best man. But who is that? He has yet to come to the front. It strikes me* that they will have to have the assistance or guidance of Europeans or other foreigners, Japs, for instance. However, something will have to be done soon, as commerce so far as China is concerned is almost at a standstill.”