The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-19
18TH u. S. REGIMENT
REACHED CHINA TODAY
The Soldiers Were Received at the Quay
by Captain ]. H. Reeves, the Mill
tary Attache of the American
IoooA;o, a. uaLino
Legation at Peking.

PeSing, China, Jan. l9.-The Fifteenth
regiment OF United States infantry,
which is to act as guard for the pro-
lection Of the railroad from Peking to
the coast, arrived at Ching Wang Tao,
aboard the transport Logan, this morn
ing Captain j II. Reeves, the mill
tary attachee OF the American legation,
was on the quay waiting to greet the
troops as they disembarked.
The question OF the abdication of the
throne will be discussed by the empress
dowager and the princess, but it is not
thought that Yuan Shi Kai will take
part in the conference.
But it has been long expected that
the Manchu irreconeilables would unite
ia massacre when all hopes for the
administration had vanished. A plaeard
posted last night indicates that the Man
chu threats may be fulfilled. 1t calls
upon all loyal Manchus and Chinese to
resist the abdieation Of the emperor to
the death.
The street near the Office Of the Chi
nese foreign board, at which Yuan Shi
Lai resides, is heavily guarded by the
premier's own men, of whom it is said
there are $500 Many Chinese who
have not yet deserted the city are pre-
pairing for fight, and prominent followers
0f Yuan Shi Kai are taking refuge out
side their own homes, hoping in the
event of a massacre they will not be
found.
The charges that Yuan Shi Kai has
been disloyal to the Manehus, although
pretending to support them, are attract
ing the attention of foreigners as well
as the Manchus and Chinese. Some of
the revolutionaries have long been say
ing that he was working for the over
throw, not the salvation, of the dynasty.
But it has been thought that this charge
was designed TO discredit the premier
with the Manchus. Others charge Yuan
Shi Kai with working for his own in
terests, and that he intended to become
dictator if he did not assume the throne.
The imperialsts, who distrust him,
point out that he has persistently with
drawn his army, although trained i'm
perialist troops could easily disperse the
unframed rebel volunteers. 1t is also
said that the withdrawal of the army
from Marking was by Yuan Shi Kai's
orders.
Even after obtaining sufficient money
from the empress dowager and the
princess for months campaign and
after request by the generals that
they be permitted TO fight, Premier Yuan
continues to withdraw his forces.
The proposal which he is now making
to WI Ting Fang, the republican min
lister of justice, is thought to be tanta-
mount to dictatorship. 1t is under
stood that he offers a compromise of
abdication if the government is left in
his hands until Noperly elected ma
tional assembly shall decide the form
OF government. Some of Yuan Shi Kai's
right hand men are Cantonese and other
southerners from provinces which are
recognized as rebel and several of his
immediate supporters do not attempt to
hide their anti-Manchus feelings.
Whether the suspicious against the
premier are false or true, they are Civ
en- sufficient credence to cause the or
ganization of naturalization bodies,
against which Yuan Shi Kai has been
compelled to take measures of defense
and it is authoritatively stated that
the dynamite bomb outrage against his
life was the work of a Manchu fac
tion.
So complex indeed is the situation,
that the foreign ministers no longer at
tempt to elucidate it for their govern
ments.