The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-11-16
REACHES CAPITAL
WITH SOLDIERS
INTERVENTION is
BEING DISCUSSED
Efforts to Induce Him TO Accept
Pre- niership Unavaiiing - Diplo.
mis- Believe Suffering is Due
China - Winter Approaching.

emma - WINTER approaching.
Pekin, Nov. l3.--Yuan Shi Kai, the
the last prop of the throne. has
reached Pekin at last He came today,
accompanied by 1000 troops, and
was warmly X eeted by the admins
Cration.
Ia honor of his arrival an edict
was issued appointing him command
or OF all the troops in the vicinity of
the capital Great efforts are being
made to induce him to accept the
premiership, but he has given no de-
finite answer.
The national assembly today dis.
Cussed the immediate opening of
parliament but decided it would be
inadvisable. The matter was referred
TO a committee, which will consult
with Yuan Shi Kai.
The opinion is held at the legations
that there are serious complications
III store for China and greater suffer
ings than she has yet endured. The
prospects of foreign intervention by
other powers than Russia and Japan
are beginning to b. discussed. Winter
is expected to terminate the massed
movements of troops, but there will
he greater death rolls through fam
inc, even in Chilli province The peo,
pie in the central section are already
supplementing their food supply with
the bark of trees.
Capitulation Certain.
The government continues gather
ing Manchu recruits at Pekin. but
soon will be unable to meet the pay
ment 1t is not believed here that the
Chinese can mobilize "A large enough
army about Pekin to venture an at
tack, but the governments inability
10 collect revenue from a single pro
vincial capital is almost certain to
bring about capitulation.
report reached here today that
1000 imperialists AT Hankow have
Joined the rebel ranks and that the
remaining imperial gunboats at that
port have gone over to the rebels Ac
COrding to a consular report, the
Hankow consuls with one exception al
"A recent meeting agreed that it is i'm
possible for imperialists to capture
Han-Yang or Wu-Chang They there.
the government to Withdraw the i'm
perial troops to the north. because
when the commissiariat is empty they
are likely to commit depredations and
endanger the foreign concessions.
Certain military attaches at Pek.h
consider that the imperial troops at
Hankow win be lost to the govern
ment unless brought back immedia.
tely, but the government may prefer
10 leave all but the Manchus there.
not undertaking the risk of transport
ing them back 10 the capital.
The November Boxer indemnity has
been paid and the December indem.
nifty likewise will be defaulted. Even
should the government be able to re.
cover the five provinces Immediately
surrounding the capital. the financial
administration cannot be reorganizel
before defaults of other debts besides
the indemnities occur, and ii is fear
ed that Intervention for the collec
tion OF pledged revenues cannot he
averted.
The American consul at Chung
King, Albert w. Pontius, informs the
legation that nearly one hundred for
eigners are making ready to leave
Chung King for Shanghai. OF these
thirty.one are Americans.
General Chao Erh Hsun, the yice-oy
of Manchuria, who has been elected
president of the province under the
declaration of autonomy, has sent a
message 10 the government that he
was unable to oppose the Mukden as.
semOlys declarations, which are:
First that the revenues shall he re
tanned by the province. which wiz
'rve no connection with the Pekin |
so"zrnment, old or now; second, that
the province will assist neither the
thlnese o nor the Manchu soldiers,
lhmd' that the goyeTnment will afford
me fullest protection to foreigners.
VIE rebels look over Chee-Foo quiet
Is t'day, General Chang Shoa-Tsen.
commander Of the Lanchau troops, ha !
arrived at Tien Tsin with bodyguard
OF thirty men. He is lodging in the
foreign concessions.
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