10,000 Massacred.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 17 January 1912, Page 5

10,000 Massacred.

FATE OF THE MANCHUS. T CHINA IN REVOLUTION. MONGOLIA'S INDEPENDENCE. RESERVES CALLED UP. TOWNS LOOTED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 17, 1*2.30 a.m. Pekin, January 16. The Shensi massacre of ten thousand Manchus is confirmed. Many princes are contributing generously to the patriotic fund. The princes of Eastern Mongolia met at Chengcbia Tung to discuss the declaration of independence of Northern MonI Shanghai, January 16. fniree cruisers and three transports, conveying three battalions of infantry and eight machine guns, have sailed for Chefu. The Imperialists, after much fighting, have reached within sixty miles of Sianfu. ' Many towns were looted. The Times' Pekin correspondent states that the decree of abdication will establish the Republic. It is hoped thereby that the nation will accept it as legitimately succeeding monarchy by the Imperial will, and it further hoped the Republicans will assent to Yuan-Shih-Kai's presidency. BOMB THROWN. POLICEMEN KILLED. i Received 17, 1.30 a.m. Pekin. January 16. While returning from the Palace a bomb was thrown at Yuan-Shih-Kai. He was not hurt, but two policemen weie kjjed and two injured. INDIAN TROOPS FOR CHINA. ,i ' London, January 15. The Times' Bombay correspondent states that two battalions of Indian troopsare sailing for China. INTERNAL POSITION NEVER SO DANGEROUS. i' i 1 • ■ • ; London, January 3. The Pekin correspondent of the Daily Tolograph declares that the sitnation in China was never so chaotic as it is at present. Internally the position is more dangerous than ever, Bankruptcy in the capital'.it. so common that the railway compMljes .are borrowing a few thousands of pounds from the British coal-mining companies in anticipation of freights. PBIX£ES TO DISGORGE WEALTH. IMPERIAL GENERAL'S ROUND ROBIN. Pekin, January 3. i The Court ha£ received from the generals commanding the Imperial forces in the vicinity of Pekin a round xobin,' demanding that the princes should withdraw all their wealth from foreign banks, and hand it over to the .War Office. The threat is made that Prince Citing's palace will be destroyed if the money is not forthcoming. YtAN MACHINATIONS. Pekin, January 3. It-is-believed that Yuan Shih Kai will yet -prevent the consummation of the Republic. He has accepted the resignation of Tang Shao Yi, the Imperial representative at the Shanghai Pi-ace Conference, and has . telegraphed to Wu Ting Fang that in future any negotiations with the Republicans will be carried on by telegtaph. MUTINOUS SOLDIERS. OUTBREAK AT LANCHOW. . Pekin, January 3. Seven hundred soldiers guarding the arsenal .at Lanchow, in Kansu province, have mutinied. Their commanding officer, who has Bed, has' warned the railway companies that the mutineers intend to hold up the trains. Three thousand troops have been despatched from Pekin to attack the . jnutin^rs. ALL HOPE ABANDONED. YUASf'fi BREACH OF FAITH. Shanghai, January 3: All hope of peace has been abandoned as a result of the refasa] of Wi Ting Fang to eammunicate with Yuan Shih Kai unless the latter comes to Shanghai. Yn charges Yuan with having committed a breach of faith in making no attempt to comply with the peace demands assented to by his envoy, Tang Shao Yi. The general opinion is that Yuan is backed by the Manchus' private fortunes. It is, therefore, concluded that there will be no chance of his getting a place in the Republican Cabinet, and that he will fight to the last. HITCH IN NEGOTIATIONS. RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES FEARED. Pekin, January 4. The fact that Wu Ting Fang has not sent any reply to Yuan Shih Kai's message stating that future peace negotiations would be carried on by telegraph is regarded as an unfavorable sign. A rumor is current that the fighting will be resumed shortly, tlie Republicans being unwilling to negotiate Dy telegraph. REBELS' PAPER CURRENCY. Hongkong, January 4. The rebels are issuing a new paper currency to the amount of £3,000,000. THE FUTURE OF CHINA. A Chinees writer in the Contemporary sketches the education reforms of his country in their relation to the problem of its development. The steady onset of the stream of Chinese students directed in recent years upon Japan, Europe, and the United States, is shown to be already an important factor in the Westernising of that ancient race, and one likely to have important results in the future. Moreover, the reform of education is only at an infant stage, but it is a whole-hearted and determined expression of the new time-spirit. It has been begun and it will not be allowed to fail for lack of enthusiasm. In the "Nine-

teenth Century," Sir Henry Blake, formerly Governor of Hongkong, directs his knowledge of the country towards an opinion as to the result of the present upheaval. The events of the past few weeks have somewhat disturbed his theories. Sir Henry Blake does not view either the Republican rising or its forecasted result quite so enthusiastically as most people. For one thing he' urges the fact that there have been many revolutions in China, hut never a republic, and that government in China, whether republican or otherwise, is never likely to square with the hopes of idealists, for the simple reason that the Chinese habits and customs of long centuries past make any government a matter of violence, and "squeezes," and wholesale bribery. Further, he seems to have had an idea that the Imperial troops would be more than equal to their task of subduing the rebellion, and even at the worst he foresees the preservation of the dynasty, nominally, with strong Ministers in real control of affairs. All which suggests how much water has flowed down the Yangtsekiang since the December reviews were written. In the Fortnightly, with a firmer grip upon probabilities, Mr. Archibald Colquhoun sketches the cause of -the approaching downfall of the Manchu dynasty, and speculates concerning the form which the Republic of China will take.