New-York tribune., 1912-01-19
'MANCHUS IN PEK|NG
. THREATEN MASSACRE
Legations Fear Result of Confer
enCe About AbdiCatiOn and
Take Precautions.
YUAN NOT TO ATTEND TALK
Premier Again Accused of Dou,
BILE Dealing and Bomb Out
rage Is Laid to the
Princes

Peking. Jan. 1S-The foreign legations
are preparing for trouble in Peking to-
morrow The question Of the abdication
Of the throne will he discussed by the
Empress Dowager and the princes hut
it is thought that Yuan Shih-kai will T ot
take part in the conference.
A rising in the capital has been looked
for many times i'm the last few months,
and precautions have been taken in an
ticipation Of it. needlessly, however, and
the outbreak may not occur tomorrow.
But il has been long expected that the
Manchu irreConcilahcS would unite IN a
massacre when all hopes for the admin
istration had vanished. \ placard
posted tonight indicates that the Man
chu threats may he fulfilled. It calls on
all loyal Manchus and Chinese to resist
the abdcation Of the Emperor To 'he
death.
Yuan Has Guard OF $500.
The street near the office Of the chi
nese Foreign Board at which Yuan
Shih-kai resides, is heavily guarded by
tho Premer's own men, of whom it -
said there were $500.
Many Chinese who have not yet ie-
serted the city are preparing for flight
tomorrow. and prominent followers Of
Yuan Shih-kai are taking refuge outside
their owA homes tonight, hoping that
i'm the event of a massacre they will not
he found
The charges that Yuan Shih-kai has
been disloyal TO the Manchus. although
pretending To support II en-, are attract
ling the attention of foreigners as well
as the Manchus and Chinese. Some Of
the revolutionaries have long been say
ing that he was working for the over
throw. not the salvation, of the dynas-
Ity. But I has been thought that this
charge was designed to discredit the
Premier with the Manchus. Others
charge Yuan Shih-kai with working for
his own interests. and that he intended
to become dictator. II he did not as
sumo the throne
The impcrialists. who distrust him.
point out that he has persistently with
drawn his army, although the trained
imperialist troops could easily dsperse
the unframed reDel volunteers. n IL also
said that the withdrawal OF the army
from NanknR was at Yuan Shih-kaf 4
orders. Even after obtaining sufficient
money from the Empress Dowsger and
the princes for a months campaign and
after a request 10y the generals that
they be rmitctd 10 hght Premier
Yuan continues 10 withdraw his forces.
Looking Toward Dictatorship?
The proposition which he is now max
ing 10 Wa Ting fang, the republican
Minister of Justice. Is thought 10 lie
tantamount to a dictatorship. II is un-
derstod that he offers a compromise OF
IabdiCation If the government Is left IN
his hands until a properly elected Ma
tional Assembly shall decide the form
Of government Some Of Yuan Shih-
kai's right hand men are Cantonese and
other southerners from provinces which
are recognized as rebel, and several Jf
his immediate supporters do not at.
tempt TO hide their anti -Manchu feel
iLgs.
Whether the suspicious against the
Premier are false or true they receive
sufficient Credence To cause the Organiza-
tion OF naturalization bodies, against
which Yuan Shih-kai has been compelled
to take measures Of defence, and IL is
authoritativeIy stated that the dynamite
bomb outrage against his life was the
work of a Manchu faction.
So complex, indeed, is the situation
that the foreign ministers no longer at
tempt to elucidate it for their govern
ments.
. Seven of the MOngol princes persist in
their determination 10 oppose abdication
and stand firmly against the idea Of a
, republic.
The United States troops from Manila
q are expected to arrive on board the
transport logan at Chin Wang-tao %
( morrow morning.
t Captain J. H. Reeves, military at
tache of the United States Legation, has
gone 10 Chin Wang-tao to meet them.
He will conduct the main body of the
10th Infantry and other details to Tien-
o Tsin on a special train. on their ar
e rival at Tien-Tsin the men will be quar-
$ tered in a large warehouse rented Ivy
the United States Consul.
A detachment Of 100 men will proceed
directly from Chin Wang-tao to take up
their duties as guards along the Ameri-
can section Of the Peking Railroad from
Tang-Shan To Lanchow, which has
. hitherto been patrolled by British troops.
Shanghai, China, Jan B.-Four trans.
ports, conveying four thousand republican
| troops, chiefly infantry and artillery. sailed
1 from Woo-sung, where the soldiers en-.
a barked, this morning for Chi-Fu Several
other transports are lying at Woo-sune
|. prepared to depart for the same destina-
ton with further detachments.
This is the beginning Of the plan Of cam.
paien drawn up by the republican com.
manders for an advance on Peking. The
nlan is that five columns shall advance
simultaneously from Chi-Fu. through Shan
Tung through Ho-Nan through Hu-Peh
and through Shen-Si and Shan-Si, all con.
yerging on the capital.
ROGERS'S MIND AGAIN FLEEs