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Show THE POWERS MAY INTERVENE Abdictlon of the Emperor of China and Surrender of Sovereign Powers May Force Nations to Act. t Pekln. Practically all of the foreign for-eign envoys have notified their respective re-spective governments that some action ac-tion by the powers Is necessary in China at once, if armed intervention Is to be avoided. There Is a strong possibility that China may soon be without government, in view of the repudiation of the ultimatum sent to Yuan Shi Kal by the Nanking rebels to the effect that in the event of abdication ab-dication there will be no provisional government established at Pekln, It Is thus the duty of the powers to guard against uch a crisis and the disaster it would bring. It la unlikely the foreign powers will permit the latest demands of the republicans, which Include the abdication abdica-tion of the throne and the surrender of Its sovereign powers, the exclusion of the Manchus from participation In the provisional government and Premier Pre-mier Yuan Shi Kal's elimination from the provisional government until the republic has been recognized, to be fulfilled without protest. |