AFFAIRS IN CHINA
MARTIAL LAW ESTABLISHED
(Received Last Night, 11.20 o'clock.)
NANKING, April 15. President Yuan Sliili Kai has entrusted Huang Hsing with the restoration of order and the control of civil ami military affairs. The President's action is interpreted to mean that he does .not desire to risk a rupture with .the south. It is also a tacit acknowledgement that the Sou'tJiern authorities are not prepared to dissolve the military organisation. Three ■hundred, were killed in the recent mutiny. Martial law has been established. Several Ministers have refused portfolios. The revolutionary members of the Government are-., reluctant to proceed to Pekin. Chang Hsa'n, an ex-Imperialist Commander in Southern Shantung, has recruited a force "of 14,000. He refuses to deliver a million) dollars worth of British rolling stock, unless a guarantee is given that tlie railway will not be used to transport "Republican' troops.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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144AFFAIRS IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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