Deseret Evening News | 1907-09-04 | Page 9 | The Manchu Succession Becomes Important

THE MANCHU SUCCESSION BECOMES IMPORTANT Sept 3 The question of ot th the Manchu native IlaU officials as assert a 0 aart art sert ha tHis today become hie the paramount topic af ot deliberation at tho thu summer palace One of ot the th ablest foreign au authorities aut t says N that more Inore urgent than thana a ft constitution for China or the amal tUM amalgamation ot of the opposing ng Chinese and Manchu i Is II the question of o an heir apparent which th tM the dowager r the greatest of all aU closely Identifies with the continuance and se security ot of O the dynasty The question has JIa not been beell raised since the time sub lub subsequent sequent to the dowagers deposing of Prince PriMe Chun son lIOn Pu Iu Chun in accord accordance ance anoe with the Ute protocol of iwi 11 when a u artty majority of o th the Imperial clan reaffirmed loyalty to Pu u Chun This ThIll action cUon caused cau a dangerous scandal and nd va was regarded re us 5 an affront to the th power threatening a removal of ot complication A price was wa placed on Chun head the clan WM wu denounced nod ld Its It activity sup aup pressed pr ed Th TI urgency of ot tho the of the tl and ond the tho difficulty of It Its set settlement t is le HIOU owing to 10 the natural infirmities af of the lh dowager donager empress em r due dud lIu lIuto to old URe Ule which are teed reed by threats of oC apoplexy and alia tao by b the eon con condition ot of the emperor em r who constantly Is la reported to te be lL I He its H Is la said raid to tobe tobe tobe be the victim gf of a decline which adds to the possibility of ot an accident to the throne throna other ther than that feared tred from flOm anarchist and nd revolutionists In view of ot C her hr he own precedent of ot nr ar arbitrarily making rocking Kwang Hsu JIu emperor It I ii believed that the dowager empress will declare d the th heir apparent tilde inde independently of ot the wishes of the Imperial clan