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Show CHINESE EMPEROR 1ST ABDICATE i SHANGHAI, Doc. 20. "I am convinced con-vinced that the abdication of the emperor em-peror and tho establishment of a republic re-public is tho only thing that will satisfy sat-isfy the people of China and provont further wholesalo shedding of blood," declared Tang Shao Yl, representative of Yuan Shi Kai, tho premier, after the Beseion of tho peace conference today. Continuing be said: "Poking is not aware of the depth or extent of popular feeling in the south,. Even I, although somewhat ' prepared, am astonished to find such a chango from an attitude of patient forbearance to dogged patriotic determination. deter-mination. It now appears certainly too lato to save the dynasty. "It will be difficult to persuade Yuan Shi Kdl to abandon his plan for a limited monarchy, but we must use every endeavor to secure peace ani end this awful bloodshed and the suf-f,er,ing suf-f,er,ing among my poople," TanV'Sbao Yl oxpreased the bellct 'that tho situation might have beon eaved at one tlmo by a conforonce w(lh the revolutionary loaders and prompt RMursnce of adjustment ot wrongs, but he considers it now too late He also Is convinced that therp fc; must be no foreign interference in the p way of loans or otherwise. w Six foreign powers, the United S States, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, I France and Russia, united today in g presenting an Identical note to" Tang 1 Shao Yl and Wu Ting Fang, foreign g minister In the 1 evolutionary provls- 1 lonal cabinet y While the exact wording of the note has not been made public, It Is under- 1 stood that It did not go much farther re than to express tho good will of the R governments represented and tho hope gj that the peaco conferences would re- S pult in bringing tho revolution to a close. P Practically the whole session of the B conference between the delegates of ff tho Imperial governor and tho revo- 1 lutlonlsts today was devoted to Wu S Ting Fang's speech jn favor of a ro- g , public. jj i Tang Shao Yi. whose powers clear- S ly are limited, exprossod his read'nsss B to accept Wu Ting Fang's views, but & declared that tho matter was so Im- K , portant that hp must first communl- E cate with Peking. Ho suggested that E I a settlement bo loft to tho national b I assembly, but made no counter pro- jf poa's. Thus neither side presented a well- f. I defined scheme ond thp conference g araln was adjourned Indefinitely. It was announced the armistice has w. been extended to December 30 g oo II |