CHINESE REVOLT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 11 January 1912, Page 6

CHINESE REVOLT.

IMMEDIATE REPLY DEMANDED BY RUSSIA. : MASSACRE OF MANCHUS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigi t.) (United Press Association.) Pekin, January 10. Russia has demanded an immediate reply to the Mongolian Note. China fears to acquiesce lest Britain will insist on similar conditions in Tibet. Troops at Hi burned the Tartar general’s yaraen. Many Manchus at Kuldja were killed, the Republicans destroying the Pukau railway for a hundred miles from the southern end. Advices from Shanghai state that the Revolutionaries at Nanking have ordered the forces towards Pekin. Ten warships in the Yang-tse-kiang and ten Shanghai steamers have neon chartered to carry a portion of the troops northward by sea before tnc northern rivers become frozen. A land advance is likewise pobable. Tv E WEST TO PAY FOR THE ,1 EAST. ‘ The Shanghai correspondent of the “London Daily Express” wrote as follows on November 4:— • When the stay-at-home Englishman reads about a revolution breaking out somewhere or other, it does not usually seem to him that such events are'likely to effect his private fortunes and affairs, for the fighting is going on a long way off among alien peoples in whose concern he takes but little interest. Recent revolutions, such as the Turkish, Persian and Portuguese troubles, certainly do • not affect him particulary, nor do they touch his pocket, but the long-expect-ed revolution which has at last broken out in China may possibly do both of these things. An upheaval in a system of government affecting directly four millions of people must surely react sooner or later on the rest of the world’s inhabitants. Last August England had a dock laborers’ strike, and by this time has forgotten about it more or less, "but we in China are actively feeling results from that strike_ just now; for the belated cargo is arriving, a revolution is in progress,and it is impossible to get the Chinese to take delivery of the goods ordered, as commerce is at a standst’ll. English merchants have to carry the cargo and finance it, and Qie English dock strike hits us three months later! Conversely the Lancashire cotton mills are receiving few, if any, orders from China now and China is not of that country s most important customers. This revolution is going to hit British industry indirectly, just as it hits us hero directly. , . , Of course, when it is all over and a stable Government is formed, the China trade will boom like hot cakes; but the important point to be remembered is that wlien China develops her own. vast resources, and seriously starts manufacturing her own requirements to such ,ap, extent .that she will ”’fid‘lonjg&r “'need to buy other goods, the effect on England’s industrial affairs wil he serious indeed. "The significance of the Chinese revolt is most grave, and marks, in my x opinion, ~the beginning of .an epmyi,. I which. startpig, iq- uuliistnal. conflict ' will merge into a world-wide' race conflict. , , , ... , I think that the pendulum of Western racial predominance has swung to its limit, and will now begin its very slow, but sure and certain journey towards the’East again. The, old, old East, with its looming myriads, is awake now, and the wakening is ominous for the West. The Chinaman learns easilyhe is teachable, can do anything,’ and go anywhere And ' wherever he does to live under just rule he has proved himself a good citizen, law-abiding," thrifty, frugal and industrious.

According to Mr. - James Cline, interpreter .to.the American Consul in HongkoiigJ \v3io 5 hgts* just arrived ifn| Sydney W a visit;' a movement has just been started in Southern China with the object of securing the services iff exiPresident Roosevelt;to' r?r organise the Government and remodel the Constitution of China.