1 JULY 1916, Page 10

A Reuter telegram in the papers of Wednesday stated that

Admiral Li Ting-hsin, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, has sent an ultimatum to President Li Yuan-hung announcing that the Navy will declare its independence unless a new Cabinet is formed from which all Monarchists shall be excluded, the old Parliament is reassembled, and the provisional Constitution of the first year of the Republic is reinstituted. As the members of the old Parliament are all at Shanghai, whence the ultimatum issued, it is evident that they have " collared " the Navy.