New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-07
DANGER AHEAD FOR YUAN
Chinese President Faces Long
Period of Unrest.
TO CURTAIL HIS POWERS
Nationalist Who Attempted 1t
Promptly Suppressed by
High Handed Decree.
From The Tribune Bureau. ]

lfrOm me tribune bureau.
Washington, Nov. ct Is evident that
the situation In Picking is exceedingly
serious. The evidence at hand indicates
that Yuan Shih-kal is facing a crisis. 1t
Is believed here that he will come out
OF the present upheaval triumphant. al
though II is quite certain that he faces d
long period OF trouble and unrest in his
Heterogeneous and internally distressed
country His high-handed and drastic ac-
ton In dssolving the nationalist party,
eXpelling the members from Parliament
and throwing some OF them into JAIL as
the most recent advices state, is sure to
breed trouble.
AS dangerous as internal conditions are,
they are not so important, in the minds
OF critics here. as the danger which
threatens China from without. China has
at last agreed 10 the Russian demands
concerning Mongolia, whereby Mongolia
becomes Independent. although Russia
recognizes Chinese suzerainty. The fact
OF the matter Is that Mongolia becomes
Russian and is lost forever to China.
The province OF Tibet has already be-
come independent" under British au-
spices; Chinese Turkestan will sooner or
later become Russian; Japan already has
a firm hold on that part Of Manchuria
not held by Russia. and claims special
interest In an underlined region called In
ner Mongolia, which means acquisition
sooner or later.
The loss OF the dependencies means that
China. has been deprived since the out
break OF the Manchurian revolution in
1911. OF 50 per cent OF her total area, not
counting Manchuria. The present danger
IL that internal conditions will become
such. and China will be so divided from
within, that 1t will be impossible for
President Yuan to combat the foreign
aggressor.
Advices 10 hand to-day indicate that
Yuan was moved TO dissolve the nation
alist party not so much on account OF
that party's participation in revolution
airy movements as by the fact that the
party was obstructlng progress in Parlia-
ment, and more important. was endeav-
oring 10 curtail Yuan's powers under the
constitution which is being considered at
this time.
There are many in China who charge
that Yuan is planning TO become an en-
peror. lie has already assumed almost
imperial authority by his drastic methods.
but II IL not believed that he will ever 30
70 far rs 10 attempt a coup q etat. For
one thing. lie has too often declared his
support OF the republic For another, and
this is even more important. Yuan has no
son with capacity sufficient 10 succeed
MIN II he established an imperial line.
Even Yuan has admitted that his SONS
have not the strength for such a task
Advices received from Canton BY oir-
GERS OF the Chinese Nationalist party
state that. acting upon the orders OF
President Yuan, the provincial legis-
Iature Of Kwang-Tung has impeached
Peter Hing. chief justice of the province.
The charge is general malfeasance I'm Of
fee: specifically. that he COMPOUNDED his
judicial functions with executive duties.
His friends here declare that partisan
considerations alone led to the proceed
ing against the chief justice. and that
the only bar TO his summary dismissal
by Yuan, who has ousted nearly all the
young progressive officers I'm the country,
is the provincial constitution PROVIDING
for impeachment as the sole method OF
removing judges. Hing is member of
the Kwo-Ming tank. or Nationalist party,
which has long opposed Yuan's arbitrary
methods and which he has practically
expelled from the Picking National AS
sembly.
Peter Hing. as he is known in America
(his Chinese name being WI Chih-pen).
received his legal education at McGill
University. Montreal, from which he was
graduated in 1905. He took the degree of
master OF arts at Columbia I'm 1910. As a
Christian Chief Justice Hing sided with
the Canton Commissioner OF Education
in his secularizatlon OF the schools. This
attitude and his stanch opposition to
Yuans dictatorial attempts determined
his reactionary Confucian enemies In
urging his removal. Pending his trial,
the chief justice has been suspended from
performing his duties.
Yuan Shih-kai is supported by the
commercial classes and has packed the
Canton Legislature so that the chief jus
tees conviction seems likely, though 1t
Is not known what penalty will be meted
put TO him Kings friends in New York
fear for his safety, as the cruelty of Gov
arnor Lung TZai-kwong. n most trusted
lieutenant OF Yuan Shih-kai, is well
known.