AFFAIRS IN CHINA
ACTING VICE-ROY ASSASSIN-
ATED
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
CONDITIONS LN THE INTERIOR, •(Received Last Nighc, 10.10 o'clock.) '"PEKIN, December 19. Missionaries- report the assassJuration of In an Fang, Acting-Viceroy at Szeohuan. On discovering that the army was disflloyal, Than Fang attempted to ■ flee. Tfae soldiers hacked him (together s>tithi -his brother) to pieces with -avvwds. It is reported thaft Chengdu.. has • revolted. The paece conference has> opened •at Shanghai;. It is bcSeeved that, the Republican/Si- have . suibimitted, proposals for the abolition oi' iue Mamclxu dynlasty, and- -the. creation of :a Republic* ' ••' • .?;;:• TEey offered) a peosiori to Oourfc imperial Princes and to extend generous trfatmentbto other.Mftrichius.The oonfcreince, before proceeding, requested Yuan Shi Kai and Li ' 'Yuan Heaig to.insist a stringentnrntfstrtoe. The conditions in the interior are . heco-ming worse. ~ Indaistn'ies are ait a standstill, and '-milllioiis are starving owing to tie S: floods in Siang-su an* Auh-Wei-, Kiang. T : ? Thie Imperialists have sent train iload* of aimmuinititoni to tlie, ~toung boundary/ Whence the fifth division is moving southward, joining .with. General Chang Suang'e forces' -■at Asuehem, in Northern Kiangaui, where they are preparing for.a big' -bat/tile. Wo Tung - Fang has telegraphed to Pekin, urging the. diplomats to pro-, oeed to -Tientsin., thus- freeing the ; ground for tlie final dirama.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 5
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209AFFAIRS IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 5
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