TROUBLES IN CHINA
POWERS OCCUPY A RAILWAY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 8, 12.45 a.m. Pekin, January 7. The Powers have occupied the railway from Pekin to the sea. EUROPEANS IN DANGER. Pekin, January 5. Fifty brigands control Taiyun and 30 Italians priests and two foreign residents are in jeopardy. The Italian and British ministers are persuading Yuan-Shih-Kai to send troops. Advices from Irhungking state that the revolutionaries have executed the Viceroy Char-Oer-Feng and the Imperialist General Tien. ELECTIONS TO THE CONVENTION. POSSIBLE DIVISION OF EMPIRE. Pekin, January 5, The Government is directing the elections to the National Convention in the northern provinces, Turkistan, Tibet, and Mongolia. The Republicans are organising the south. The arrangement suggests the possibility of a division of the empire in the absence of an agreement by the convention. Sun-Yat-Sen has received a courteous letter from Yuan-Shih-Kai, thanking him for the offer of the presidency, but declaring that the entire people will be permitted to decide the form of government.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 162, 8 January 1912, Page 5
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163TROUBLES IN CHINA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 162, 8 January 1912, Page 5
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