THE CHINESE REVOLT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 84, 6 April 1912, Page 5

THE CHINESE REVOLT.

l'% PORTFOLIO DECLINED BY A MILITARY GOVERNOR. ( WOULD LOWER HIS DIGNITY. VBy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) •- (United Press Association.) , '■' Pekin, April 4. ' 'Checkcmei, the military Governor of Shanghai, has declined a portfolio, because its acceptance would mean a transfer from a post of high importance to a post of no importance. -,.' i: PESSIMISM IN JAPAN. ~,' Tokio, April 4. ~'Tho Japanese papers are .pessimistic regarding China s Cabinet, and declare that the bureaucrats hold important positions and the southerners second-rate ones. The Cabinet, they say, is pliable and incapable. ;' )( GREAT 'SOCIAL REVOLUTION. (Received 6, 8.5 a.m.) 7i. • Pekin, April 5. 'Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, interviewed at Shanghai, said the greatest social, revolution of history was commencing. Henry George's ideas were practicable ih 1 China's virgin soil, compared with impracticability in Europe or America where capitalists control the money. He. adds that he has: obtained the (government's full consent and starts an' immediate propoganda. The Government will adopt the control of railways, and mines, the single tax system, and as far as possible free trade. rThere is an unconfirmed report that Li-Yuan J Sung has been' assassinated. ' •>■ ■•'■ j DOINGS AT LHASSA. ' ;f! ; (Received 6, 10.40 a.m.) 5u Calcutta, April 5. 'The Chinese Ambassador at Lhassa hoisted the Republican flag. The officials discarded their ■ queues and donned frock coats and tall hats. Tibet is now part of the Szechuan province. The Tibetans-are preparing to exterminate the Chinese.