| Show CONFERENCE MAY END CHINESE W A AE Imperial Plenipotentiary Mee Meef Revolutionary es enta- enta tives s at Shanghai Today COMPROMISE IS EXPECTS EXPECTED j f t Settlement May Be Reach s Observers Believe M Mutual Concessions I Shanghai China Dec 16 The H.-The The c ct 10 0 Ing week will be perhaps time the most ne ne ner able n In the n history of ot the revolution r China Tang Shao YI the thc imp tO 0 plenipotentiary appointed b by Yuan Shi Kal to negotiate Peace with the victorious rc ec- ec Is to arrive In Shanghai tIn day on daOn da- da cabOn labOn lab cab On arrival here hero the party part will traveled tra about miles along the by b n 1 which Is ls Patrolled by h a of ot or of re revolutionary crul crullers cruisers and gunt of 01 Tan Tang Shao Yi will not In fact t L In m seen an Imperial soldier or a y n nd- nd Ilag since he left will I Included In Tang Shao YI's part Into two leading officials Yen Shi I with the tho board of or finance hc YanG lang Shi Chi former Cormer president nt 0 of board of communications who wi wl aras aras ar ar- aras as his counselors coun elors Ho lie also has wl r s twenty-one twenty representatives of 01 Ih provinces of oC China who have b with b by Premier Yuan Shi Kai Kal bj Hr 1 set the rc ol revolutionary u con cn tI 1 1 reset re- re e sitting at r fun n d JS a I t Four Foul representatives of oC Ll iJ LI F Kiltie r. r Heng tieng the revolutionary leader lender are arc traveling on the same boat t with Tang Shao YI and his party part Wu u Tin Ting Fang Fan former Chinese min min- minIster lster Ister at Washington and recently selected selected so se- se as forel foreign n minister of oC the Republican Republican Re Re- publican cabinet who Is directing th the reception of or Yan Yang r Shao YI Ti will sent send two tt representatives cs to meet the part party at nt Its landing at the settlement I The fhe municipality of 01 Shanghai hal has offered of- of the town hall for or the tho meetings of oC the me peace conference This proposal has been accepted by Wu Ting Fang on tho the condition that Tan Tang Shao YI approves Expected eted The fhe best observers among the tho Influential influential Chinese believe there IB is a good chance of oC a settlement being made mado through mutual concessions The Republicans at pr present sent are arc determined determined deter deter- mined to demand that the dynasty be brought to a close and that the Man Man- chus a as a cla class s or 01 clan be merged with tho the Chinese together with their dependencies On this point a compromise e eventually ma may be reached namely that tho emperor em em- be bo retained as a n. Chinaman at the head of ot the new d dynasty nast It ma may bo be that he will become constitutional monarch with a regent to be elected b by the people but on an extremely limIted limited limited lim lim- franchise The Tho national congress If IC the proposition proposition proposition Is accepted will have ha Its members members mem mem- bers elected b by each province and will wll control the Imperial finances as well as the arm army and navy Each province however will be bo autonomous In regard regan to Its Ita own affairs and will elect Its own governor Thero There Is reason to believe that If It th the tho revolutionists concede the question o oa of oC ofa oCa a republic Yuan Shi Kal will accept their terms The chief difficulty difficult appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears to be with the hotheads students and extremists who are demanding a republic Dr Sun Singapore SID Singapore Dec 16 Dr Sun Eun Tat Yat Sen the Chinese reformer arrived here to toda to- to da day Safe Peking Dec 16 A. IG-A. A. A Herrmann representative representative I of the China Inland ml mission s lon slon I at Peking has returned hero here with I twenty-three twenty missionaries from Ta Tal i Yu Yuan n. n Only four missionaries now re remain to- to main In the thc central part of oC Shan S Si 81 province pro Thc missionaries In southern Shan Si also ate are getting a away Strong Foreign Guard nt Dt Peking 1 Washington ton Dec 16 The H.-The The foreign troops In Peking Peking- as legation guards number 2103 or more than two thirds s soC of oC a full Cull arm army brigade according to to toI toas today's today's to- to I days day's as report to the state department The force torce Is made up as follows American Austrian 86 Belgian 21 British French German I Italian 1 Japanese 9 Netherlands Nether ether lands 48 IS Russians RussIan |
