AFFAIRS IN CHINA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10522, 10 January 1912, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN CHINA

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

A DEADLOCK REACHED NOTE FROM RUSSIA. (Received Last Night, 10.25 o'clock.) . . PEKIN, January 9. The armistice has not been renewed. Negotiations have readied a deadlock. The Government are in hopes that tiio revolutionaries will move northward and afford an opportunity for a pitched battle, as the Government is finantially unable to send sufficient troops southward to secure a victory. A Russian Note demands China's recognition of independence in outer Mongolia, as regards internal affairs. Tlie note states that Russia assists Mongolia to maintain order. Russia intends to construct \ a railway from Kialvta to Urgu. China will not bo allowed to maintain military or send colonists, but will be permitted to retain control of external affairs.

A MISSIONARY'S BODY. BROUGHT TO HANGCHOU. (Received Last Night, 10.25 o'clock.) SHANGHAI, January 9. The body of a man named Filiate, formerly belonging to the China Inland Mission, has been brought to th© Brinish consulate at Hankchou. THE DOOM OF THE MANCHU. The "Daily Mail," in a recent issue, Slid"With the rapid spread of the rebellion in China the prospects of the Mandhu Dynasty are growing darker day by day. Yuan Shift .Kai, | whose vigor and strength of will are J well known to Westerners, has been . unable to achieve victory against the revolutionaries, and the offer of every | kind of constitutional reform has not placated them. It cannot be said 'that the present crisis is unexpected. For the last generation close observers of Gh iua have been predicting the fall of the Manchus; and probably only the astuteness of Itflie late Empress Dowager prevented the expulsion of the Dynasty eleven years ago., If, so far, • Western Powers have not intervened, : it is because ttheir interests 'have been expected. Rut Should the revolution 1 spread further, .the solvency of China will be in doiibfc. Large sums of money have been borrowed from the West, and it will be no easy task to, pay the interest, on these. Already the finances of the Empire are a source of overwhelming embarrasment. By treaty Avith the Western Powers the Government may not impose duties on imports and expoilts above a fixed percentage, the yield of which has proved inadequate to meet the expenditure. The revolution has caused siuch vast loss to Chinese subjects that its effect' on Itrade must lie speedily felt with a fur-; itilier decline in the revenue. If the rebels obtain power and drive out the Manchu Dynasty 7 the financial difficulty will remain. This .it is that may at anv moment. precipitate intervention, "should the insurgents attempt ito increase the duties or should they be unable to fulfil their promises and pay the interest on the international loans."