Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-17
DELAY UNTIL FRIDAY
Discussion of Chinese Throne
Abdication Postponed.
EMPRESS WEEPS BITTERLY
Dowager Is Visibly Affected at Con-
ference With Princes.
UNEASINESS IN THE CAPITAL
Revolutionary Movement in Mon
golia Is Said to Be Making
Considerable Roadway.
EMPRESS WEEPS BITTERLY
IN THE CAPITAL

LONDON, January 17.-Further discus
sion of the question of the abdication of
the Chinese throne has been adjourned
| until Friday. according to a news agency
dispatch from Tientsin. The conference
held today by the princes Of the imperial
clan at the palace was inconclusve.
The empress dowager during the con-
ference was keenly affected by her posi-
ton. She wept bitterly as she informed
the princes that she thought the abdi-
cation Of the throne had become inn
perative.
| Prince Ching. the former premier. as
sented to this, but the younger princes
took an attitude of strenuous opposition
to the passiveness of Prince Ching, and
urged the empress dowager to refuse to
| abdicate.
Planned General Uprising.
Huang Tui-Peng. the bomb thrower
! who attempted the life of Yuan Shi Kai
yesterday, and his three accomplices
have confessed that the assassination Of
the premier was to have been the signal
for a general rising in Picking. says a
Picking dispatch to the Daily Telegraph.
The whole southeast portion of the city
is now picketed with troops, and a house.
toulouse search resulted in the discovery
of a bomb factory and the arrest of sew
eral men having bombs in their posses
sion.
There are persistent rumors of an at
tempt to poison the empress dowager
who. however, becoming suspicious, re-
fused to partake Of the fatal cup.
Progress Of Revolution.
PEKING. January 1.-THE revolution
airy movement in Mongolia is making
considerable progress. According to con-
sular dispatches received here the seizure
of the Manchurian town of Khailar by
the revolutionaries and the proclamation
Of autonomy by the Mongols Of that re-
gion are confirmed. The imperial troops
stationed in the town did not offer any
opposition.
The Russian railway guards who have
formed a Gordon around the Russian set
Element and railway station in khailar
for some weeks, have permitted some OF
the Manchus to take refuge there. Ere
quent reports reach Peking that the
Mongols have taken cities. sometimes
without opposition.
Watching Republicans.
The attitude of the republicans in con-
nection with the loss of provinces hither-
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watched with considerable interest by
foreign observers.
In Russian circles it is commended that
modern army being organized by the re-
publican government, but doubt is ex-
pressed by the military attaches of other
foreign nations that the Russian states
men really fear such an occurrence.
There seems to be a desire OH the part
of the British and Japanese governments
to prevent any anti-Russian press cam
paign at the present moment, In view OF
the possibility of partition OF China,
but in diplomatic circles here it is gen.
orally recognized that China has lost
the right to retain vast territories which
she has proved herself incapable of de-
veloping.
Change in Mongolia.
ST. PETERSBURG, January IA
change has come over the situation in
Mongolia, according to reports published
in the newspapers here. A number of the
minor khans and leaders who originally
declared for Mongolia's independence
from China have now sent a petition to
Premier Yuan Shi Kai at Picking. in
which they explain that their proclama-
ton Of Independence does not mean COM
plete separation from China. if the Pc
king government will only abolish the
oppressive system of fiscal extortion
which has been practiced hitherto In
Mongolia.
A dispatch from Urga, the Monaghan
capital, states that Kutuktu, the head of
the Lama sect of Buddhists, who was re-
Gently installed as khan of Mongolia,
has abolished the Chinese taxes and es-
tablished new ones on the advice OF
Russia.
The newspapers charge Premier Yuan
Shi-Kai with playing a double game, on
the one hand applying for Russian aid,
and on the other hand trying to repre-
sent Russia as violating Chinese sover-
eighty in Mongolia.
The Novoe Vremya insists that Russia
does not want Mongolia as a Russian
province, but that a free and Independent
Mongolia would be highly desirable.
Russia to Take Part.
The Russians will join with the Ameri-
can, British, French, German and Japa-
nese forces in keeping railway communi-
cation open from Peking to the sea. AL
ready the Russians are occupying the
east station of the Imperial Railway of
North China at Tientsin, and all the va
rious sections of the railway line from
Picking to the open port of Chinwantao
are now being guarded. Minister Calhoun
has reported these facts to the State De-
partment