AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 4

AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

! Br Morrison, "The limes' " correspondent at Peking, has had an. interesting interview with Yuan Shi Kai, who, he says, is advocating tdue. retention of the present, dynasty as a limited Monarchy, fearing, if thie demands of the Republican party prevail and the dynasty is removed, that there would be internal wrangling leading to anarchy, in which foreign- interests would suffer and 'foreign Hives, be endangered, and so foreign intervention and partition would follow. Already, Yuan says-, there are signs of dissension among the revolutionaries-. Each province has its- own objects and aspirations. The view of the north cannot be reconciled with that of the south. The Prime Minister said he believed that seven-tenths of the population, were staMf conservative- aind satisfied with the olid regime; three-tenths only belonged to the advanced party. If the revolutionaries, shbukll succeed in overthrowing, the present dynasty another revolution' might take place, headed by the Conservatives, having for its object the restoration of the Monarchy. Amid such chaos all interests wouMi suffer, and for severa-l decadt-s there would be no peace hi. the Empire.