The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
PEACE CONFERENCE
 ON IN SHANGHAI
Wu Ting Fang and Tang Shao Vi, Together With
 Ten Delegates, Confer

Shanghai, December 1S.-The peace con- ference between Wu Ting Fang. the foreign secretary in the revolutionary cabinet, and Tang Shao Vi, representing Premier Yuan Shi Kai, and five delegates selected by each side, opened in the town hall here at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
 The delegates immediately proceeded to business. All except the delegates were excluded from the building, which is guarded by armed British police. The public is not even allowed on the same side of the street as the town hall. A i5ctatsle faA in connection with the peace conference is that both of the principal pcrsonages are natives of Canton and are old friends.
 Upon their first entrance into the room the greeting of the delegates was most friendly. Tang Shao Vi this morning said personal representative of Premier Yuan Shi Kai. This declaration may be re- gorded as significant one.
 Both Wu Ting Fang and Tang Shao Vi privately expressed the hope before the conference opened that some agreement might be reached. Amos P. Wilder, United States consul general here, for 0idlly cdileu on IdnB sofldO II lillS l1uru- ing and talked with him on subjects of general interest without touching on the question, however, of the revolution. The strictest precautions have been taken by local authorities for the purpose of pro- testion of Vi, as intimation has reached the police that some among the more not needed students have been advocating his assassination on the ground that he Is supporting the Manchus.
 se, t< I4a1s tl,t. idea is absolutely without foundation. Tang Shao Vi is an advocate of consti- tutonal monarchy, but does not support the retention of the Manchu dynasty. His sympathies are with the Cantonese re- formers, but he does not believe In a re- public.
 San Francisco, December 1S.=A cablegram received here today by the Chinese Free Press reports Dr. Sun Yat Sen has been elected President Of the new Chinese republic by the revo- lutionary body sitting at Ranking.
 Dr. Sun received half of the votes cast by the delegates from II prov inces.
 Wong Hing. one of pr. suns sup porters, came next in the list and was made minister of war
 Tong Fang, late revolutionary gov ernor of Hu Peh province, was named as minister of the interior.
 Flung Chi Vat. until recently an ed- itor of Chinese newspaper in San Francisco was made colonial min ister
 Peking December 1S.-An aeroplane belonging to the revolutionary forces Is reported to have landed 30 miles be- low Wu Chang, having flown from Shanghai. a distance of moro than over 400 miles in an air line. Two French experts and an experienced Chinese airman are said to be aboard
 Tuan Fang, one of China's foremost men, has been killed by his own soldiers at Tse Chow in Shan Si province. ac- cording to missionary reports received Fang visited the United States in 1906 at the head of a Chinese educational commission. Fang's brother suffered death at the hands of soldiers.
 London, December 1S.-The action which, it has been decided, shall be initiated by the British and Japanese governments in China, is more d mat ter of mediation than of intervention In any case the government awaits the results of the peace conference, or at least some indication of what the out come of the discussions is likely to be before proceeding further.
 Thus far the conversations that have taken place on the subject of mediation have been solely between the British and Japanese governments. Before any definite decision is reached by those governments all the powers will be noti- fled as to their proposed action