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Show PRAYING OR PEACE CHINESE ARE IN HOPES THAT POWERS WILL INTERVENE AND PUT END TO WAR. Coming of Winter Expected to Cauti Serious Complications Because of Famine, Many People Already Sufferlnfl From Lack of Food. Peking Yuan Shi Kai, the last frop of the throne, has reached Peking Pe-king at lust. He came Monday, accompanied ac-companied by 2,000 troops, and was warmly gritted by the adminlstra tlon. In honor of his arrival an edict was Issued appointing him commander of all the troops In the vicinity of the capital. Great efforts are being made to Induce him to accept the premiership, premier-ship, but he has given no definite answer. an-swer. The national assembly on Monday discussed the Immediate opening of parliament, but decided It would be Inadvisable. The matter was referred to a committee, which will consult with Yuan Shi Kai. The opinion la held at the legations that there are serious complications In store for China and greater sufferings suf-ferings than she has yet endured. The prospects of foreign Intervention by other powers than Russia and Japan are beginning to be discussed. Winter Win-ter Is expected to terminate the massed movements of troops, but there will be greater death rolls through famine, even In Chi LI province. prov-ince. The people In the central section sec-tion are already supplementing their food supply with the bark of trees. The government continues fathering father-ing Manchu recruits at Peking, but soon will be unable to meet the payment. pay-ment. It 1m not believed here that the Chinese can mobilize a large enough army about Peking to venture an attack, at-tack, but the government's Inability to collect revenues from a single provincial pro-vincial capital Is almost certain to irlng about a capitulation. |