PEACE FOR CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1911, Page 5

PEACE FOR CHINA.

BRITAIN AND JAPAN TAKE A HAND. CERTAIN TERMS GUARANTEED. uy Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 18; 10,5 p.m. Pekin, December 18. The British and Japanese Consul sC.eneral will act as mediators at the forthcoming negotiations between the Imperialists and Revolutionaries. Tokio, December 18. The newspapers assert that Britain end Japan are combining to secure peace in China. The Foreign Office declares the report Is premature. A message from Shanghai states that the rebels haveTjeen notified that Britain and Japan are prepared to guarantee certain terms if peace is declared. The Japanese newspaper, the Jiji Shimpo, announces that both countries ■will take decisive measure? if the terms are refused. KO OFFICIAL STATEMENT FORTHCOMING. Received 18, 11.40 p.m. London, December 18. The Foreign Office states that the Japanese reports concerning Anglo-Japanese peace intervention in China are unauthorised. It is impossible to issue a statement on tihe matter at present, pending negotiations. FIGHTING STILL PROCEEDING. Received IS, 105 p.m. Pekin, December 18. The Imperialists now control Taiyuanfu. General Chang, with 4000 rebels, attacked Kingchau. The Manchu garrison surrendered, their lives being spared by "the intercession of a Catholic missionary. The rebels at Shanshi are demoralised, poorly armed, and fleeing. During their flight four locomotives, drawing the retreating troops, blew up. The occupants of the trains lied to the hills. The Manclm soldiery have demanded arrears of pay, and stipulate that future, remuneration whall lie in the nature of pay and not Manchu bounty, also opening of all colleges and compulsory attendance of students, the suppression of opium smoking and gambling. Misses Sears and Mollov, Australian missionaries, were conveyed to Hankau, whence they are to be deported to Australia ior disobeying the British Consul's orders to leave.