The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-11-11
SH|H-KA|.
RULES |. ! LIKE
DESPOT
President of Chinese Republic
Orders Disbanding of National
Party and Deprives Sun Vat
Sen Members in Parliament
from Holding Office and is Ar
resting Enemies.
nv Federal Wireless Photography

CANTON, China, November i.-(ope-
cial to The dvertiserl-Armed with
dynamite bombs and automatic re-
volvers with which to assassinate the
Governor Of Che Kiang Province, five
young Chinese were arrested aboard n
steamer sailing out of Shanghai this
morning, according to telegraphic adj
vices inst received here.
Secret information had reached gov
eminent agents that the assassins were
on their way to CHE Kiang Province,
and n watch was kept on all passen-
gees. When arrested and put to tor
ture, the five men confessed that they
we're on their way to Che Kiang and
were prepared to kill the Governor.
They admitted that high government
officials had paid them $500 yen each
for the deed.
While the report of the murder con
spraey has caused intense excitement
throughout Canton, still greater inter
eat centers on the order of President
Yuan Shih.kai that the National party,
headed by Or. Sun Vat Sen, be dis
banded at once.
II is reported that the murder con-
spiracy is nationwide and was aimed
chiefly at Yuan ShihIkai and his sup
porters.
From the best information obtainable
here, it appears that Doctor Sun is in
Japan. His closest friends have been
in communication with him, and while
they decline to discuss his whereabouts
IL is understood that he is somewhere
In the Nipponesc Empire, watching the
Chinese political situation closely.
TOXIC, November 7.--(Special Cable
to the Nippu Jiii)-That Yuan Shin
kai, President of China, is rapidly dis
closing his plan to become the despotic
ruler of the former Empire and is max
| ing plain his intention of defeating the
hopes of those who expect the firm es
adjustment of Republic, is the star
Ting charge arising from the Picking
| dispatches received here through official
sources today. These dispatches state
that Yuan is abusing his official and
military power to the limit and has
inaugurated n campaign for the an
initiation Of his political opponents.
The first step in his campaign to
crush out opposition to him was taken
yesterday, when the President ordered
the dissolution of the Kwo Ming Tong,
the political party of which Sun Vat
Sen, now an exile in Japan, was one
Of the active leaders. Tho reason ad-
ynnced by Yuan for such revolutions
airy step was that he had discovered,
through agents, the existence of n plot
! to inaugurate a new revolution in South
China. The leaders of the party were
given three DAYS in which to dissolve
their organization.
Forced to Give UP ONCE.
Following this order came another,
to the effect that every member of the
Chinese parliament that owed allegiance
to this party must be deprived of of
fee, while any who refused to resign
must be expelled from Picking as Il
traitor to the government
Elections to fill the vacancies thus
created were ordered by the President,
accompanied by instructions TO the otli-
cials to see that no member of the Kwo
Ming Tong, or any man who had taken
any part In the recent revolution, should
be allowed to become candidate.
Yesterday the soldiers under Yuan s
command made an attack upon the
headquarters of the Kwo Ming faction
and arrested six leaders, without warn
ing or legal warrant. These six men
are now held prisoners and their exc
cution is expected. Feking is in tur-
nioil as "A result of these hghhanded
actions on the part of Yuan, while the
iSwo Ming members are fleeing from
the city in all directions. The parlia-
ment is ALMOST deserted.
Framing New Constitution.
The Constitution of the new Republic
IS now in process of preparation, Icing
drafted by a special parliamentary com
mittec, of which DIR. Nagao ~Ariga, one
of Japan foremost professors OF in
ternational law, is an adviser. The
document under discussion and revision
was written by Doctor Ariga aud it is
likely that his original draft will finally
he adopted, unless the actions of Yuan
render abOrtiyc the Efforts of the con
stitutional committee
: The latest adviccs from Peling are
to the effect that Yum Iii III, tho
premier, will resign as protest against
the arbitrary actions of the President
; and AS notification to the world that
a despotism has alreldy taken the place
of the constitutional Republic desired
: and fought for.
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