The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-12-17

war on Russia as a reply to the Car 8
demands affecting the sovereignty of
outer Mongolia. SO report local Chi
nese leaders close in touch with their
homeland politics.
While the smooth Muscovite diplo-
mats have been palavering with the
procrastinating and willy Chinese ennis
saries, Yuan Shih Kai has been hurry
ing division after division of the new
Chinese army into Mongolia and mil
lions of Chinese all over the world
have been sending in streams of trea
sure to provide the sinews of the war
on Russia.
The Chinese newspapers in Honolulu
have received this information, and
these representatives of the new China
bristle with declarations that the young
Republic will fight to the finish before
Russia is permitted to acquire one inch
of ground in Mongolia.
Hoodwinlking the Bear.
1t is stated here that the news pub
lished in The Advertiser Saturday
morning, that the Russian minister has
warned China that rupture of nego-
tiations as to Mongolia is imminent,
but shows the extent to which the Chi.
nese statesmen have hoodwinked the
Muscovites. Delay has been all that
China has been playing for, according
to the dispatches, and it is stated that
the Republic never had any intention
of acceding to the Czar 8 demands, but
only sought time in which to hurry an
army into Mongolia and secure the nee
essary funds with which to prosecute
the war.
Yuan Shih Kai and his advisers to-
| gether with all the leading Chinese, are
said to be unanimous in the belief that
a crisis has been reached in the affairs
of the Republic and that only by giving
battle to the invader in the north and
driving him back, can they prevent the
partition of China. Once Russia gains
piece of the country, they believe
that the other Powers would insist on
their share and the Republic of China
would soon cease to exist.
| Therefore it has been deemed essen
| tial to defy Russia, in the belief that
China has a chance to win, and if she
loses, she will not lose more than has
already been determined upon by the
other Powers.
Because of the serious complications.
DR.. Sun Yat Sen will postpone his visit
to the United States for at least six
months, it is stated. This is accordance
with the announcement made in The
Advertiser some days ago to the effect
that Doctor Sun had abandoned his
! trip to America for the time being.
He is now in Peking, in daily consul.
tation with President Yuan Shih Kai
and it is declared he is the last person
likely to leave the soil of China under
the present conditions.
Big Steamship Project.
When Doctor Sun does visit the Uni
ted States, his trip will be of particu-
lar importance to the representative
| Chinese of Honolulu, who with those
of Los Angeles and Shanghai are in.
terested in proposed line of steam
ships to ply between Los Angeles and
China via Honolulu, under the Chinese
flag. Doctor Sun, it is expected, will
have large share in the organization
of this line and had expected to per-
feet the arrangements for it on the
trip which he has now postponed.
Aside from this business purpose,
Doctor Sun had planned to visit Wash
ington and urge the recognition of the
Chinese Republic by the United States.
1t is understood in China, however,
that the recognition will be accorded
Immediately after the elections in China
next month, and that in case the retir-
ing Republican administration fails to
accord this right, the incoming Demo
cratic administration may be counted
upon doing so in accordance with the
Sulzer resolution.
The waving of the Exclusion Act
as far as Hawaii and the Philippines
are concerned, was another important
matter which Doctor Sun expected to
take up with Washington.