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Show .1 Tli Ffli IS JtiflKfl FIGURE Conference Between the Warring- Factions to Take Place at Shanghai. STRONG HOPE QF PEACE Large Majority of - the Representatives Repre-sentatives in Favor of Republic. By Associated Press. SHANGHAI", China. Dec. 10. Tho coming week will be perhaps the most notable in the hi?tory of tho revolution revolu-tion in China. Tang Shao Yi. the imperial im-perial plenipotentiary appointed by Premier Yuan Shi iCai to negotiate lorms cif peace with the victorious revolutionaries, is to arrive in Shanghai on Sunday. On their arrival here they will have Irnvelcd about .S00 miles along tho river Ynugtse, which is pa I rolled by a score of revolutionary cruisers an.l gun boats. Tani: Sluio Yi will not, in fact, have seen an imperial soldier or a. yellow flag since he left Hankow. Included in Tang Shao Yi 's party are two leading officials, Yen Shi Shi,'. connected con-nected with the board of finances, and Yang Shi Chi, former president of I ho board of communications, who will act asr his counselors. Ho also has with him twenty-two representatives of different dif-ferent provinces of China, who have been selected ly Premier Yuan Shi Kai to offset tho revolutionary convention now sitting at Nanking. Travolod. on Boat. Four representatives of Li Huen Hcng. the revolutionary leader, are traveling on the same boat with Tang Shao Yi and his party. Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese minister min-ister at Washington, nnd recently selected se-lected as foreign minister of I ho republican re-publican cabinet, who is directing the reception of Tang Shao Yi, will send two representatives to meet tho party at its landing at the settlement. The municipality of Shanghai has offered tho town hall for tho meetings of the peace conference. This proposal has been accopted by 'Wu Ting Fang on the condition that Tang Shao Yi approves, ap-proves, ... The best, observers among the influential influ-ential Chinese believe there is a good choice of a settlement being made through mutual concessions. Tho republicans at present are determined deter-mined to demand that; the dynasty be brought to a closo and that tltr Manchus as a class or clan be merged with the Chinese, together with their dependencies. dependen-cies. On this point a compromise eventually may be reached, namely, that the emperor em-peror be retained as a Chinaman at, the head of the new dynnsty. It may bo that he will become constitutional monarch mon-arch with a regent to be elected by the people but on an extremely limited franchise. Rebel Demands. The national congress, if the proposition proposi-tion is accepted, will h&vc its members elected by each province and will control con-trol the imperial finances as well as tho ami' and navy Each province, however, will be autonomous in regard to its own affairs and will elect its own governor. There is reason to believe that if Ihc revolutionaries concede, the question of a republic, Yuan Shi Kai will accept their terms. The chief difficulty appears ap-pears io be with tho hotheads, students and extremists who arc demanding a republic. A ceusus taken among the representatives represen-tatives of the republicans now assembled assem-bled in convention at Nanking shows that a large majority of them is in favor of a republic, but at the present crisis if Dr. Sun Yat Sun. General Li Yuen Huong and other influential republicans, republi-cans, whose names have not hitherto been mentioned, should counsel u compromise, com-promise, the cud of the troublo might ho in sight. . Rhnnld the conference at Shanghai fail to reach an agreement, tho republican repub-lican military lenders are confident that thev can eventually take Pekhi. It is beliovcd Tang Shao Yi is advising advis-ing Premier Yuan Shi Kai to accept tho presidency of the republic with Sun Yat Sen as vice president. It is thought that the Mauchu dynasty will be forced lo abdicate and to accept the terms offered by tho icpublicans. |