THE REVOLT IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 8 February 1912, Page 5

THE REVOLT IN CHINA.

ABDICATION DELAYED. YUAN-SHIH-KAI HIGH COMMISSIONER. ROYALTY TO GRADUALLY DISAPPEAR. By Cable—Press Association-■ Copyright. Received 8, 12.30 a.m. Pekn, February 7. There is delay in the sanction for abdication, and the edicts are causing friction between North and South. A decree has been made appointing Yuan-Shih-Kai High Commissioner, with absolute powers. Nanking, February 7. A special meeting of the Assembly, representing fifteen provinces, accepted the principle of Yuan-Shih-Kai's terms, but refuse to allow the continuation of titles of Emperor and Princes after the lifetime of the present bearers; They agree to a civil list of four million dollars, and pensions to some State dignitaries until other occupations can be provided. Religious freedom will be granted to all classes.

JAPAN AND MANCHURIA. Received 8, 12.30 a.m. Tokio, February 7. A request by the Government for power to make payments from the special reserve without reference to the Diet, is believed to refer to contingencies in Manchuria. TERMINATING HOSTILITIES. Pekin, February 6. Yuan-Shih-Kai cordially aggrees to the proposals of the Republican leaders to terminate hostilities. MANCHU MURDER LEAGUE. REWARDS FOR KILLING CHINESE LEADERS. STARTLING STORY. The news of a great conspiracy is forwarded to London by the Exchange Telegraph Company's special correspondent at Tientsin, from .which it appears that what is known as a "Determined to Die" An anti-Han Society, composed of 700 of the wealthier and more influential Manchus, has been formed with the object of assassinating the 60 odd provisional head men in the already declared Republican provinces. For the attainment of this object three different classes of rewards arc offered in proportion to the value of the person murdered. , Tiie first-class reward of £20,000 will be given for the murder of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Li Yuan Heng, and several others. The late Wu Hu Chieng, who was murdered, was also included in the list.

The second-class reward is of £{iooo, and will be given for the murder of Lan Tien Wei, Tang Chin, Wu Hung Chung, and others. The third-class reward is of £2OOO, for the murder of Shan Tung Wu. Yang Tao. and ntVr«. The chief reward of i all is £200.0(10 for the body of \uan Shih ] Kai, but they do not require to murder him at present, and propose waiting until ! tranquility is restored to the Manehu Government. I

The Prince Regent and Prince Ching j were, it is s'ated. advised of this movement, lmt did not make any real effort ' to stop it, and the 700 Mnnchus and bannermeh are now distributed all over the IS provinces The China Times, which exposes the conspiracy, says the whole thing has been brought into the glare of publicity by a purebred Chinese named Chang, a native of Shantung, whose father was a poor hawker in Pekin, and who sold Chang to a Pekin Manchu, by whom he was adopted at five years of age He is now 27 years of age. He spent 22 years with his Manchu adopted parents, and rose to be captain in the Imperial Bodyguard, raving graduated in the Military College.. By means of exercising some cunning, and knowing his Han origin, he managed to join what the paper calls "these disciples of the devil," and having obtained £l4O from them he ran away to Tientsin with his family. The paper concludes: "Such is the way high Manchus interpret edicts ordering the fusion of the Manchu and the Han races. Can any sane person believe that there is the faintest semblance of sincerity in the edicts that have been issued? We are unable to, and the' Almighty above knows."