Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-12-28
PREMIER MAY RESIGN SOON
Some Factions Profess to Doubt Loy-
atty of Yuan Shi Kai.
COURT WILL GIVE UP THE FIGHT
Advisers of Throne Realize Resist
ance Will Be Fruitless.
MIGHT HOLD FEW PROVINCES
without Foreign Loan, which IL Ina
possible 20 get, Sections in Re-
volt Could Not he
Conquered.

PEKING, Dec. 27.--The empress dowager.
Ye Ho La, has summoned the lead
ing princes OF the imperial clan to meet
Premier Yuan Shi Kai to discuss the
proposal made at the Shanghai confer
ence.
It IL considered not improbable that
Yuan shi Kai will endeavor shortly TO
withdraw from active politics in which
case the power OF the Manchus will not
last many weeks.
The attitude OF the imperialist dele
gates TO the Shanghai peace conference,
coupled with the discomfort with certain
Manchu factions which profess to doubt
the loyalty of Yuan Shi Kai, are the
motives given for the possible retirement
of the premier.
Representative members of the imperial
court, according to information from an
authoritative source, have slgnified to
Premier Yuan Shi Kai their willingness
60 agree to an abdication. The court. the
same authority states, realizes that there
is no hope for II in the retention of three
or four detached sections OF the country
ana semi-loyal provinces and hopes to
obtain better terms by agreeing to the
proposed referendum on the question OF
the form Of government
Premier Yuan 6hi Kai fully realizes that
the republican spokesmen gathered at
the peace conference at Shanghai are not
likely to accept his proposition for a
carefully elected assembly representing
the entire empire. He is of the opinion
that the republicans know the throne will
favor his yuan shi Kai's) plan.
The premier is certain that he could
win several battles with the modern army
at his disposal, which is being equipped
ana is greatly superior to the rebel forces
but as he is unable to obtain any loans
he would be unable to re-conauer the lost
provinces.
Yain She Kai will probably resign his
office after making the best terms pos
sible for the throne. .,
Yuan Shi Kai regrets what he con-
siders 70 be Tank-Shao Yars desertion
He suggests that Tang-shoa Yai nigh
baeomel president Of the republic. whiel
Is an offioe hs himself would not accept
Yuan shi Kai also regrets that foreigl
nations have withheld their finanoia
support with the help OF which he coult
have re-conquered the country.
Will Elect President To-day.
SHANGHAI. Dec. N.-It is reporte'
that the delegates OF the eighteeI
provinces Of China proper intend to NEE
at Nanking on December Is TO elect Dr
Sun Yat Sen as president of the provis
ionaI government OF the United Prov
inces.
An informal meeting between Wu Ting
fang and Tang Shao vi, the leaders o
the revolutionaries and imperlalists
respectively, at the peace conference too
place today, when Yuan Shi Kats pro
posal to submit the future form Of gov
ernment OF China to a special nations
assembly was considered. There is reaso
to believe that while In principle tn
reVolutionaries agree to this proposa
they are not ready to consent to tn
delay that Yuan Shi Kai urges becaus
they fear that the imperialists will tax
the opportunity to strengthen their force
and finances.