The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-01-04
DIR. SUN YA7 SEN
IS PRESIDENT
DELEGATES TO MEET AT NAN.
KIN AND CHOOSE REFoRMER
FOR FIRST PRESIDENT.
ALREADY ORGANIZING A CABINET
Yuan Shi ka Takes Sick Leave
Russians Want China to Continue
In Control Of Mo..-
golia.

III N0uIToI OF WON.
goIia.
Shanghai, Dec. 29.-An imperial
edict will not be accepted by the revo-
lutionaries except in the most liberal
form under which a republic can be
established without delay, or unless it
provides for the recognition of the
provisional government of which DR..
Sun Vat Sen was elected president
at the regular convention of the
Marking conference at which 10 dele
gates appointed by the governors of
the provinces or by the provincial as
semblies, will act in behalf of China
proper.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen has made prepara-
tions to organize his cabinet. It is
believed that the first ministry will
be strong and may include some of
Yuan Shi Kai's delegates, who accom-
panied Tang Shao vi, the premier's
representative, to the peace confer
ence.
The revolutionary leaders here
laugh at the apparent struggle of
Yuan Shi Kai, the imperial premier,
to temporize with the situation, which
they declare has passed out of his
control.
Disguised at the refusal of the i'm.
perial clan to contribute to the war
chest, Yuan Shat Kai last night took
sick leave. 1t is believed this pres
ages his early retirement from the
premiership. He bitterly resents the
bad faith Of WI Ting Fang and his
party in proposing a national congress
and now insisting upon a rump. not
representative, congress. Yuan fears
that republic means the countrys
dissolution, and believes the only sane
| solution is to fight it out, but he is
handicapped by lack of money.
China Ordered to Keep Mongolia.
! Pekln.-ln response to a direct re-
quest of the Russian government
handed to the Chinese foreign office
by the Russian charge d'affaires that
China should promptly resume control
of Mongolia, the Chinese government
declared it's inability to comply at the
present moment.
| The only action the government Is
able to take regarding Mongolia, the
independence of which has been pro-
claimed, is the appointment of two
commissioners who have been or
dered to proceed by way of the trans
Siberian railway to Urga, the chief
city, to persuade the Mongol authori-
ties, If possible, to renew their al
legiance to China.
The kutuktu, who is the religious
head of the Mongol Buddhists, was
proclaimed khen.
According to the Lama doctrine,
this dignitary-the kutuktu-is the
terrestrial impersonation of the god
head and never dies, but passed after
his apparent decease into the body of
some newly born boy, who is sought
for afterwards according to the proph-
etic indications of the Delai Lama in
Thibet. The independence movement
is largely religious.
The dissatisfaction of the Mongo.
liam people has been long standing,
the Russians say, owing to Chinese
incapacity and corruption. The Chi
nese ambans, or governors, have al
ways plundered the Mongols and en-
riched themselves, while at the same
time carrying on an unjust admins
tration.
Russia does not intend to declare a
protectorate and refused the Mongol
appeal for the establishment of a pro.
tectorate last July. Such declara-
ton might cause objection on the
part of the other powers, while in fact
something like a protectorate already
exists in the association of Russian
and Monaghan Buddhists.
The attaches of Japan and Great
Britain may be expected to watch
events closely, but there will be no
cause of alarm until Russian troops
cross the Cobb desert. The construc.
ton later of the Baikal-Kalgan rail-
way might necessitate the employ
ment of Russian troops for protection
as was the case along the trans.Sibe-
rian railway in Manchuria, but that is
consideration for the future. The
present step apparently is only dip
lomatic in the Russian program of ex-
pansion which did not terminate with
the treaty of Portsmouth.
RevoIutionists Of Twenty Per.
London.-A dispatch to the Morn
ing Post from Shanghai says that the
revolutionary leaders have been in
formed by General Ii Yuen Heng
the revolutionary commander at W.
| Chang that 20 0Of> imr -o1ict troonc
at Hankow have offered to Join the
revolution for 500 apiece.
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