THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 5

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

LOAN DISSENSIONS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association ) I Pekin, April 28. t The Chinese loan of x £25,000,000, with interest at 5 per cent., has been duly signed. Two million will be advanced before flotation. The deputies of the Knoming-Tang, or Southern Party, are seeking to cancel the loan. Advices from Shanghai states that Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen warned the Consuls that the completion of the loan without reference to the National Assembly will provoke a breach between the Northern and Southern leaders. The Knoming-Tang declare that the South repudiate the loan, and will fight unless Yuan-Shi-Kai retires. / ‘ PRAYERS FOR CHINA. i , 1 (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 28., The Archbishop of Sydney, preaching in the Abbey pn Sunday, said that China, which 'shut her doors to Christianity and martyred the Missionaries, appealed to us to turn to God for them, and we did not refuse to listen to the appeal. A devotional service was held in the Chinese Legation. Chinese students offered up prayers; the hymn, “Rock of Ages” was sung,, and Lord William Cecil pronpunced the Benediction;

In 1000 Sunday schools, 2,244,608 teachers and scholars prayed.