Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-19
A MASSACRE IS FEARED
MANCiIuS ARE THREATENING TO
RESIST ABDICATiON TO THE
DEATH.
The PREMIER IS GUARDED
Many Reports Charge Yuan Shl kai
With Outright Trcachery 10 the
Throne.

PEKIN, Jan. 1S.-The foreign le-
cations fear approaching trouble to-
morrow. The question of the abdica-
ton Of the throne will be discussed
by the empress dowager and prin-
cess but it is not thought that Pre-
mier Yuan Shi Kai will take part I'm
the conference.
A rising in the capital has been
looked for many times in the last
month, and precautions have been
with this ntention-needlessly, how
ever, and the break may not occur
tomorrow.
But 1t has been long expected that
the Manchu irreconcilables would
unite in n massacre when all hope for
the administration had vanished. a
placard posted tonight indicates that
the Manchu threat may be fulfilled.
it calls upon all loyal Manchus and
emperor to the death.
A street near the office of Yuan
Sh Kai is closely guarded by the pre-
miers own men, of whom, 1t is said,
there are $500.
Try to DiscredIt Premier.
Many Chinese who have not desert
ed the city, are preparing for flight
tomorrow and prominent followers Of
Yuan are taking refuge outside their
own home tonight, hoping that in
event of "A massacre they will not be
found. Charges that Yuan has been
disloyal to the Manchus, although pre-
tending to loyalty, are attracting the
attention of foreigners as well as Man
chus and Chinese. Some of the rev.
olutionarles have long been saying he
was working for the overthrow and
not the salvation of the dynasty. But
ii has been thought this charge was
designed to discredit the premier
with the Manchus.
Trcachery Charges Made.
Others charge Yuan of working for
his own interests and say that he in
tended to become dictator, If he did
not assume the throne.
The imperialsts, who distrust him,
point out that he has persistently
withdrawn his army, although the
trained imperialist troops could cas-
lily disperse the unframed rebel revo-
utionlsts 1t is also said that the
withdrawal of the army from Nan
king was at his orders.
Even after obtaining sufficient
money from the empress dowager and
the princes for a months campaign,
after a request by the generals that
they be permitted to fight, Premier
Yuan continues to withdraw his forces
The proposition which he is now
making Wu Ting Fang, the repub-
lican minister of justice, is thought
to be tantamount to dictatorship. 1t
is understood he offers complee
compromise of abdication If the gov
ernment is left in his hands until
popularity elected national assembly
shall decide the form of government.
Some of Yuan's right-hand men are
Cantonese and others are southcrners
from provinces which are recognized
as rebel, and several of his immediate
supporters do not attempt to hide
their anti Manchu feeling.
Whether suspicious against the pre-
mier are false or true, they are Civ
en- sufficient credence to cause the
organization to Manchus and
which yuan has been compelled to
take measures in defiance of their at
titude.
So complex is the situation that the
foreign ministers no longer atempt to
elucidate for the government.