THE CHINESE THRONE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 280, 20 November 1908, Page 2

THE CHINESE THRONE

jPOX'ULAII ANXIETY I!ELIE\tU IN PEKIN. • Pekin, November IS. Unmistakable relief is felt here in consequence of the fact that the punc II ,tilious requirements of ancestor-woy-ship have Ijeen observed ill the obsequies of the lute Dowager and Emperor the prockuMtion of the new Em peror. KING EDWARD'S SYMPATHY. Loudon, November 18. King Edward lias cabled to I'rinn Chilli, the Regent of China, expressing his sympathy with the Chinese royil family in its bereavement. CHINESE AGAINST .MAXCIIU DYNASTY. Pekin, November 18. Thirty thousand Chinese in liurmuh have sent a memorial to the Wai-wu-pu (Administrative Council) protesting against tile selection of Princi l I'uyi a" Emperor on the ground tlial he is a Manehu and not a Chinese. FIGIUES 110UND THE THI'.ONE An idea of the various personages surrounding the Pekin iliione may be gathered lrom the following remarks of a I'ekin correspomlent made after some important appointments last September: "The acceptance by Yuan-Shi-Kai 01' a seat on the Grand Council gives him a powerful position, though seats in that frequently changing body nro less secure than was his post as Viceroy of Chi-li. The Council now consists of three Malielms, Prince Ching, president, Prince Chun, brother of the Emperor, who eonducted the expiatory mission to Cormany, and is now probationary only, but is destined to Hiicceed Prince Ching as president, and Shih-hsnr, a court favorite, who is Minister of the Household, and three Chinese ex-Viceroys, Lu | Chuan-lin. ('hale.' Chih-tiing, and YuanNhiKai. It is hoped that improved methods of conducting foreign relations may follow the acceptance by Yuan-Shi-Kai of the portfolio in the Ministry of the Wai-wu-pu, although he will be third in precedence only after Prince Ching. the. president, and Na-tung. Unquestionably the central authority will lie strengthened by the recent changes, while the inclusion of Chang Cliih-tmig in the Grand Council increases the prestige of that body among n huge section of the people, though the ex-Viccroy is now old and discrepit and his views have little 111 common with those of Yuau-Shi-Kai.''