Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-17
ASSEMBLE YMEN
TAKE Up PEACE
MOVE IN China
Members Of Body Which
Has Been Considered Nu-
cleus for Parliament,
Make Demand on Throne
WASHINGTON NOW
WATCHING POWERS

WA1CalINO TOWLnS
Rebellion Came With Such
Suddenness All Were I'm
prepared, but Designs of
Nations are Interesting.
Pekin, Oct, 16.-Members of the ma
lied a year ago as nucleus of par
lament and which is to begin it's sec
ond session here on Oct. %, have
Naken hand in the revolutionary
situation. About half of the 200 mem
bers of the assembly are now in P,kin.
Sixty of them gathered privately yes.
terday and discussed tie situation.
They drew up series OF resolutions
addressed to the throne.
These resolutions demand that in
the interest of peace the provincial as
sembly of Cze Chuen be permitted to
assemble Immediately and that the
president and vice president of that
body be released from prison to take
part in the sessions The resolutions
further call for a dismissal Of Sheng
HsHan Huai the imperial minister of
POSTS and communications, as soon as
possible. Sheng negotiated the loans
for the naturalization of the railway
and has been leading advocate of
the anti-provincial policy. which is re-
garded as largely responsible for the
uprising.
The president of the national as
sembly viii bend his oficfal prestige to
the resolutions and will transmit them
in person to the cabinet
tinued today and there were. riotious
scenes in front Of several Of the big
institutions The police on duty be-
ing forced repeatedly to club back the
crowds and protect the bank officials.
Government bank notes are no longer
passing as par, the best quotations
today being at a discount Of 20 per
cent
Oficial sources all declare that they
were receiving no news from the rebel
zone owing to the severance of the
telegraph wires out of Hu Peh and
Ze Chuen provinces.
Americans With Chinese Army.
"A published report says the rebels
! Chinese warships anchored off that
city
Delayed advices from the south are
that the imperial troops. which re-
treated from WI Chang and Hankow.
are mobilizing at Chumatien, 100 miles
north of Hankow, on the railroad.
Three members of the American
legation here have been given permis-
sion to accompany the imperial army
in it's campaign against the rebels,
and they left today with General Ying
Tchang. They are the only foreign
attaches with the army. They are
Lieut.. Col William D. Beach of Fort
Santiago, Minila; Capt. James H.
Reeves, the military attache of the
legation, and Willys r. Peck, assistant
Chinese secretary, who will act as in
terpreter for the party.
Japs Knew Of Uprising.
A considerable stir has been caused
here by persistent reports that Japan
ese officials knew of the plans for re
volt in the central provinces long in
advance and even encouraged and
participated in the movement. Min
lister Ijuin gave official denial Of these
rumors today. He declared that they
were contradicted by commercial evi-
dence and said that investigation
showed that all persons connected
with the Japanese legations had acted
with entire propriety.
The foreign banks have been in
directly sounded regarding the possi-
bility of arranging government loan
OF $2,5o0,00o.
Foreign Powers Taken by Surprise.
Washington, D. c., Oct. 16.-The
formidable rebellion, now sweeping
over middle China came with such
audiences and was SO unexpected on
the part of occidental nations that
there has been no opportunity for a
development of the International
phases of the movement, which seems
destined to make a deep impression
upon the Chinese snation whether IT.
shall prove successful or be failure.
Now, however, that some idea of the
wide extent of the disaffection and it's
poesfble influence upon the future OF
China begins to obtain, 1t is believed
here that some, at least, of the powers
that have in the past asserted an In
terest In Chinese affairs will be cast
ing about the safeguard and even to-
widely extend these interests. That
China, torn by revolution might fall
an easy victim to the designs of ag-
gressive powers seeking to extend
their territorial limits or their so
called spheres Of influence is clearly
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