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Show EXECUTION PROVES TO BE BUT INCIDENT Special Cable to The Tribune. I'FKIX, Dec. 1?. An extremely curious affair, resulting tn the summarv execu-1 execu-1 tlon of the famous scholar, tjung-Yu-Jen, Is greatly au-itating Pekln and attracting at-tracting close a'tentlon of diplomats, owing to the Indication as to the future which It a fford. Sung-Yu-Jen's crime was presenting memorials advocating tha restoration of the empire, with Yuan-1 Yuan-1 Bhl-Knl created prince recent until Em-j Em-j peror Hsuan-Tung attains his twentieth I year, during which Interval a harmonious j framework suitable for Chinese society ; should bo erected. j This proposition had already been can-j can-j vussed far and wide through the book of , a neither famous scholar called "The j Meaning of tha Republic.' emphasizing 1 tho parallel of Cromwell and the Eng-! Eng-! Ilsh commonwealth, annilng that the restoration res-toration became ahsoUitely Inevitable I through the logic of external events. 1 Practically all the moneyed clrvses are ! now In agreement with the play If It can be peacefully encompassed, and, thoueh this tragedy shows that much ground ; still has to be won. It ia gathered that ' attempts for tho re-establishment of tho 1 monarchy aro likely to be continuous and far-reaching, as Japan undoubtedly has a new interest in preserving tho coun-1 coun-1 try and getting rid of a formula which I only postulates International weakness : and the negation of eastern beliefs. |