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Show 1 io mmim ! CONDITIONS I j CHINESE EMPIRE . v ,' ' PEKING, March 9, 12; 10 a. i T m R Is evident today that, the J Nanking republican assembly - J 4- and President-elect Yuan Shi "' -j- Kai havo not jet reached a A ;l 4- complete agreement. ' '' ' The so-called coalition may J j therefore be again deferred, but ' circumstances are forcing both -f l , parties verv hard and and It Is ' i expected vuau Shi Kal will -t- : f take the oath tomorrow. . S , IB A strange situation is promised - ; 'then. Tang-Shao Yl, who is general- ; 'lv considered the prospective pros' pro-s' ( mlcr, is to return to Nanking where J 'tj,e republican cabinet will assemble 5 without olther the president or tho l, vlce president of the republic. The i . presence of those- officials Is required j ', "to maintain more or Ibbs order ro- il spectivoly at Poking and "Wit Chang. I ," The Individual" members of tho re- publican cabinet are,-believed goner-'i goner-'i allv to fear to come to' Peking, where J jiolitical distrust aria also personal J i hostility may endangor their lives. f Consequently It 1b oxpected the re-; re-; T publican cabinet will conduct ' the j i government in the south and leave fi'"an Snl Kal as a sort of President P Viceroy in the north. Whothor Yuan t Jwill agree to this Hcheme Involving I ithe possible continuance of the Chi-f Chi-f neae capital at Nanking; is question-1 question-1 able. Order in Peking seemingly de-f de-f pends upon the caprice of the soldiery. Tho old-stylo troops who displaced i the modern military after the rocont J mutiny declared that Prince Ching, r the former premier, sent to each of their camps a gift of four thousand f taels (approximately $2.S00) Storo-5 Storo-5 keepers In the unlooted sections are r subscribing heavily to the soldiers for S nrotectJon. 'j The Manchu soldiers who praotical- j ly closed themselves within the walls i of 'the imperial city during the mut-? mut-? j Inbus outbreak, now let their queues i hang Instead of rolling them under their caps, while the queueloas Chl-' Chl-' nese are apprehensive of their safety, ii American missionary doctors s ta-i ta-i ' tioned at Pao Ting Fu reported that 3 during the recent rioting soldiers who J! had become convalescent from wounds ' received in the fighting around Han-S Han-S kow, voluntarily protected, not only 5 the mission properly, but the homes of Christian converta. i':' : 1 1 Heng Will Not Visit Nanking. : NANKING, March S. General LI - ;' : Yuen-Heng, vice president of the re- L ! ' public, has decided not to como to v Nanking from Yu Chang and pointed ai out the necessity of his personal con- f . tral control. f : It Is understood the plan provides I ;; i for Tang Shao YI coming here as ;,', President-elect Yuan Bhi-Kai's personal person-al al representative to prosont the oath '' to tho assembly. Tang Shao Yl then j will be confirmed as premier and he ?' will organize the cabinet at Nanking. ' . Thereupon, acting President Sun Yat i ; Sen will hand over the seals and rq- tire The cabinet will then 'proceed !;' to Pelting, which will be made the .'; provisional capital. The national as--' Eembly later will choose the pcrma-"i pcrma-"i ' nent capital. 1; Both sides are now engaged in ex- j.;,i plaining the situation to the pro- z' vinco. Throughout the troubles in the north the entire south has remained ordeny Reports of mutinies and loot- Ing In KJu-Klang and elsewhere are I either false or greatly exaggerated. |