Millard County Chronicle | 1912-02-01 | Page 5 | Manchus Will Quit

MMCISWLL QUIT AGREE TO ABANDON THRONE UNDER CONDITIONS REGARDED REGARD-ED AS HONORABLE. Princes Are to Retain Their Empty Titles, Reside in Pekln or Elsewhere Else-where at Their Pleasure, and Receive Re-ceive Pensions of $2,000,000. j Pekln. It 1h tin do ml ood that tmine- j ilato abdication of the throne ha been decided upon as a r null of the conference Tuesday between the em-press em-press dowager, Prince Chun, the ex-regent, ex-regent, and l'rtnee Chin, the ex premier, pre-mier, In accordance with conditions laid down by the republicans, namely, that the Imperial family nnrf princes ( are to retain their empty titles, re-1 Hide In I'ekin or elsewhere at their pleasure and receive annual petition! aggregating 3.00O.0U0 taelB ($2,K(V 000), and that the transfer of power wJU bo etfectexl wHJj as little loa of j dignity to the throne as poHslble. The empress dowager has summoned sum-moned a cabinet meeting to arrange details of the abdication. Premier Yuan Khl Kai. in a statement to the newspapers, avers his readiness to accept almost any solution that will insure peace, lie has no fear for the country's ftiure, he says, if the settlement Ih the frutt of reason, truth and Justice. Yuan Shi K li further fur-ther says he has no ambition t'J be-como be-como president and only desires the establishment of a stable govern-nient.