The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
Deposed President Takes Refuge
In Japanese Legation After
Il Making Escape From the
Palace With Two Attendants
SOUTHERN PROVINCES
MODELLING TO FIGHT
Civil War In China Is Deemed Ger
tain and imminent and Reign
Of Hsuan lung May Be Brief
- Japan's Attitude Watched
ASSOCIATED Press By o. 8. Naval Com
munication service) .'...
T0kI0, July s. Emperor

|1UkiU, July . - Emperor
= Hsuan Tung,I deposed by
republican reyoIutioniStS in 1912,
is again on the throne Of China,
with President Ii Yuan Hunq a
refugee, seeking sanctuary in the
Japanese legation in Picking,
where he is surrounded by the
Japanese legation guard, rein
forced for the emergency. The
milltarist coup, uncertain reports
Of which have been sent out from
China during the past few days,
has been completely successful
and the Chinese Republic, tenn
porariiy at least, is no more.
President Ii, who has been
held virtually a prisoner In the
presidential palace, escaped from
his guards with two attendants
on Tuesday night and made his
way hurriedly to the Japanese
legation. Attempts on the part
OF intervieWers to reach him, in
order that a statement might be
secured, have been unsuccessful,
the legation guards stating that
ne has requested that no inter-
viewers be allowed to see him.
Definite news of the fight of the
president and the reestablshment in
power of the boy emperor has aroused
all Southern China aud already the
troops of some of the provinces are
being mobilized to oppose the Manchus
and to reestablish the republic. Re.
ports from Annoy last night state that
the Chinese forces of Kwantung are
already being massed on the border of
Fukien Province, ready to move
against Picking.
What position Japan is to assume to-
wards the restored empire and the re-
created imperial government, in view
OF the almost certain civil war, is not
made plain. On June %, Chang Shun,
named by the Emperor as his Premier,
communicated with the Japanese min
lister of foreign affairs, asking him if
1T was the intention of Japan to sup
port the movement then under way in
China for the reestablishment of the
monarchy. At that time, the foreign
minister was firm in his avOwal that
Japan intended to adhere strictly to
its policy of non.interference in China.
Premier Terauehi, some days later,
when accused on the floor of the diet
by the leader of the Seiyukai of fos.
tering the imperial plot in North China,
the assurances of his foreign
that Japan would act in favor
of neither one nor the other Chinese
faction. .--t
Now that the counter-revolutiOn
against the republic has won on the
face of il, however, Japan win neces.
sarily soon have TO either recognize the
government of the Emperor Hsuan
Tung or refuse to recognize it.
An imperial edict has been promul-
gated by the Chinese emperor, naming
u cuDlhcb anu stdllnS lnaI the govern
ment is to be conducted according to
the constitution promulgated by the
late Emperor Tsai Tien, his uncle,
whom he succeeded after the latter had
been assassinated. The edict offers a
pardon for all political offenders
against the Manchu dynasty, reinsti-
tutes, the penal code of Hsuan Tung
and announces that the wearing of
queues will be optional. The princes
are not to take any part in politics nor
in any of the functions of
government.
The cabinet named by the emperor
is: Premier, Chang shun; foreign min
lister, LANG TuRg Yen; finance minis.
ter, Chang Chen Fang; minister of war,
Lei Chen Ohun; minister of the interior,
Chu Chat Pao; chief of staff, Wang
Shin Chang, with Msu Chih Chang and
Kang Yu Wei as guardians of the en-
peror A dukedom is offered Ii the ex-
president.
At Shanghai, on Tuesday, EXPIRE
mier Tang Sha vi issued a statement
in which he said that the Chinese Re
public had never had an opportunity
Of establishing itself. "The. Chinese
Republic never had chance, 1" he said.
The real republicans were checked at
the beginning by the reactionaries and
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