NEWS OF THE WEEK.
CHINA, rather than Turkey, has been the centre of atten- tion in foreign affairs during the week. A sharp controversy has broken out between the President of the Republic, Yuan Shih-kai, and the Advisory Council. Two persons who were at first said to be generals, but who, according to Dr. Morrison, are not generals at all, were charged with plotting a counter-revolution at Hankow against the Republic, and were executed after a rapid trial at Peking—according to some accounts with circumstances of treachery. The Advisory Council demands an explanation from Yuan Shih-kai and the impeachment of the Ministers responsible for the execu- tion. Yuan Shih-kai has firmly refused to give any explana- tion or to allow his Ministers to be impeached. The point to be noticed is that the executed men were members of the advanced Republican party known as the Tung Men-hui.
