AFFAIRS IN CHINA
PRETENDER TO THE THRONE
YUAN SHIH IvAil'S VISIT TO NANKING.
(Received Last Night, 10.50 o'clock.)
PEKIN, March 5. A Pretender to the Throne has appeared in the person of Chucheng Yu, a-descendant of the Emperor Waiiti, of tho Ming Dynasty. He has somesupporters in the Anhui Hupeh provinces. Dr. Sun Yait Sen does not insist on General Yuan 'Shih Kai's visit to Nanking. Four Republican delegates are returning to Nanking to urge the Republican Govern meat to go to Peking to establish a coalition.
TR AINS STOPPED
CHI NESE TROOPS ORDERED TO "GLEAiR OUT."
(Received March 5,'9.55 a.m.)
PEKIN, March 4. Fifteen hundred Chinese troops stopped trains between Pekin and Tientsin. The Second Somersetshire Regiment deployed at Fengtai station and ordered the Chinese troops to "clear out" within an hour. The Chinese did not move until seven hundred of tho Inniskil.lin Regiment detrained, when they hurriedly fled.
MARITAL LAW IN PEKIN.
(Received March 5, 8.45 a.m.)
PEKIN, March 4. Martial law is operating successfully in Pekiii. The business quarter at Paoting-fu liar, been sacked. No Y a mens were destroyed. Foreigners, were not injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10576, 6 March 1912, Page 5
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