TROUBLE IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 89, 31 August 1912, Page 5

TROUBLE IN CHINA.

URGING AMERICA'S RECOGNITION. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. New York, August 29. General Yan-Fein-Way has arrived to urge the recognition by America of the new Chinese Republic. He intends calling on President Taft at Beverley. PEKIN THREATENED.. Pekin, August 29. Eight thousand rebels under General Chiang-Kue ccmmand the road leading from Tungchau to Pekin, and are looting villages. The Government is taking precautions to safeguard the capital. AUTONOMY FOR TIBET. Pekin, August 29. Sir John Jordan, British Ambassador, in a memorandum to the Chinese Government, declares that the Tibetans should be allowed to manage their own internal affairs. TOE TIBETAN SITUATION. Received 30, 10.30 p.m. Pekin. August 30. Sir J. Jordan suggests that China should withdraw her troops from Tibet and send a representative to Lhassa to advise the Tibetans on a foreign policy. It. deprecates China's using India as a highway to Tibet, and concludes by recommending the conclusion of a new agreement between Britain and China as a prerequisite to the recognition of the Republic. London. August 30. The Chronicle contrasts Britain's indifference to Persia's independence with her championing of Tibet. Jordan's hectoring diplomacy is something new and unpleasant, and may possibly result in the suggestion that Russia has agreed to keep out of Tibet in order to secure British acquiescence in the Mongolian schemes, to which Japan, with a°Manchurian quid pro quo, is passively agreeable. The Daily News doubts whether Sir E. Grey is empowered to. insist on the right of a determined precise relation between China and Tibet. Any scheme for a British protectorate is perilous foil v.