Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-30
CONVENTION
All China to Have a Voice in
Settling Troubles.
PEACE: OUTLOOK BRIGHT
Large Force Assembled at Shanghai
to Preserve Order.
STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
Both Army and Navy to Be National,
With Provinces to Elect
Own Governors.
PEACE OUTLOOK BRIGHT
STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

SHANGHAI, China December 90
The composition of the Chinese ma
tional convention suggested by Premier
Yuan Shi-kai and accepted by the i'm
perial court at Peking to settle the
future form of government in China
was decided on today during the ses-
sion of the peace conference being held
here between the delegates of the i'm
perfalists and revolutionists.
Each Of the eighteen provinces of
China proper will. according to the
scheme adopted. form one section; inner
| and outer Mongolia will each compose
one section and eastern and western
Tibet also one section each.
| Each section is to be entitled to
elect and send three delegates to the
conference
Three Votes for Each.
Each section is to exercise three votes
in the conference even II the fun dele
| CATION from the section is not present.
The delegates are to be summoned 10
attend by telegraph partly in the name
| OF the provisional republican government
and partly in the name OF the Manchu
| government The Manchus will issue the
summonses in the northern provinces and
| also in Manchuria and In Chinese Tur-
kestan. while the republicans will call
the delegates together from the southern
provinces Both parties will join In sum-
moning the delegates from Mongolia and
Tibet.
AS soon as delegates representing three
| fourthe Of the total number OF sections
have gathered business will be COM
menced.
Dr.. Sun Yat Sen. tho provisional prssi-
dent. expects to leave for Marking the
morning Of January L Preparations are
being made for an impressive inaugural
ceremony on the occasion Of the resteea-
tion Of Nanking as the capital OF China
DIR. Sun Hat Sen on his arrival there
probably will issue G proclamation and
hold a review OF several thousand
| troops.
Shanghai Garrison Reinforced. "a
The garrison has been heavily ruln-
forced today. Five transports daDeonr
barked rebel troops from Canton ~
morning. 1cf
Within the last few days whoI1Subs
aueue-cutting has been going on thruutas-
out Nanking. the soldiers indiscriminusoly
shearing merchants and coolies. osSke
cutting has been accepted generally "a q
l
pitful scenes have occurred. OthSrk4Se
Marking is quite orderly OF 81,
DR.. Sun Vat Sen informed the 81
ciated Press that the plans for a pailiteCy
| that they would not be announced UfitI
| approved by the cabinet. A strong teh
trail government is to be organize6,s With
| a parliament representative of the pftpye
Each province will elect its own goSefnot
Both army and navy will be nEtionA9
and, together with the finances. Wiff be
controlled by parliament. The fseaa sss-
tenn VIII be readjusted on moderl plstl-
DDS, and ntercommunicaton by railways
and roads will be pushed on as ,fapfily
~9 po's IsTsye-
Japan Sees Peaceful outconGes'
TOXIC. December 3o.-while theie is
profound sympathy here with the ireTli-
bers of the Manchu imperial courf in
| Peking, whose abdication is believed to
be imminent, great relief is felt that ac-
cording to present indications. the change
in the government of China probably will
| be effected without any further disturb
ances of importance. DR. Sun Vat Sen
| has many friends among influential poll
| ticians in Japan who are not connected
with the government 1t is sincerely
hoped in all quarters that he will sue
| ceed speedily in restoring order in China
and in re-establishing the normal condi-
| tions Of trade in ali the Chinese ports.
Any doubt here as to the complete tri-
umph of the republican element in China
was dissipated today by the receipt of a
| cablegram from an unofficial but relia Bile
source, stating that the members Of the
peace commission there had aG ypted rules
and plans for the soverpment Of the ma
tional assembly which Is to provide for
| the future government of China and
which apparently insures republican suo-
cess