Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-31
PEACE NOW ASSURED
Chinese Empress D0Wager
Says Solution Is Found.
CABINET HOLDS Meeting
London Hears Abdication Edict Has
Been Signed.
COURT TO QUIT IN A MONTH
Foreign and Finance Ministers Pay
Their Respects to Rear Ad-
miral Murdock.
CABINET HOLDS Meeting
COURT TO QUIT IN A MONTH

LONDON, January 31.-The edfct Of
abdicatiOn of the Chinese throne has
been signed, according to q message
from Tientsin.
The court will mot quit Peking for q
month, as the Manchu troops Of the
garrison threaten to shoot the royal
family and the princes II they attempt
to leave the capital.
PEKING, China, January 31.-The i'm
perial foreign board announces that the
empress dowager informed the members
of the cabinet at their meeting in the
palace today that the throne had decided
on a solution of the situation which
would insure peace She instructed the
ministers to arrange accordingly.
1t is understood that the imperial fam
lily has accepted the conditions laid down
by the republicans. and that abdicatiOn
will be announced Immediately. At
conference yesterday between the en-
press dowager. Prince Chun, the ex-re-
gent, and Prince Ching, the former pre-
mier. 1t is believed to have been decided
that the imperial family and princes
would abdicate if they were allowed to
king or elsewhere at their pleasure.
and receive annual pensions aggregating
100000 taels approximately $2O0O,OOO)
and that the transference of power would
nifty to the throne as possible.
Call on Admiral Murdock.
NANKING, China, January 31.-wang-
Chung Wei. the foreign minister. and
Chin Chin Tao. the finance minister in
the republican cabinet, called today on
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Murdock, COM
mander Of the United States Asiatic fleet
on board the special service ship Rain
bow. Wilbur 7. Gracey. the United
States consul at Marking, also was pres
ministers conversed pleasantly for some
time with the admiral and the consul.
Admiral Murdock probably will return
the call.
No reports have been received here of
serious fighting between the imperialists
and republican forces. Ch4ng-Hsun the
commander OF the imperial army, has not
made any forward movement with his
main force. but his outposts have come in
contact with and been defeated by, the
republican advance guard.
1t Is asserted In authoritative quarters
that information has been received that
the throne has Issued a private edict
indicating that abdicatiOn fs sspending
Premier Yuan Shi Kai is now said to be
merely waiting until the Chinese troops
in Peking have been sufficiently strength
ened to insure their absolute control of
the Manchu troops In the garrison.
LONDON. January 31.-The armistice
between the imperialist and republican
forces Of China, which was officially re-
newed yesterday. is being disregarded
by the republican troops, according to a
news agency dispatch received here to-
day from Tientsin. The republican army
Is following up the advantage 1t gained
at Kucheng. where 1t defeated the i'm
perial force commanded by Gen. Chang
Hsun Tuesday. The victorious rebel
army is now marching toward the city
of Suchow, on the Tientsin-Puko rail-
road.
Mongolian agents are now endeavoring
to negotiate for the purchase of arms and
ammunition at Newchwang, the Man.
churian seaport. Prince Ma left Peking
this morning for Mongolia.
A terrible panic among the officials in
Tientsin has caused many of them to
seek shelter today in the foreign conces-
sions. Martial law has been proclaimed
in the native city, according to a special
dispatch received here this morning The
mayor has resigned. and. fearing that the
lives of the members of his family are
endangered, has sent his wife and chill
dren and other relatives to take refuge in
the French concession.
Conditions in Picking for the last few
DAYS are noted i'm a dispatch received at
the State Department today from Amer
lean Minister. Calhoun as being very
quiet Abdcation of the throne, he con-
times is still under consideration