GREAT RISING IN CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1258, 13 October 1911, Page 5

GREAT RISING IN CHINA.

REBELS IN POSSESSION. VICEROY OF HUPEH FLEES 7& SAFETY. MUTINOUS TROOPS. Ifj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright <Rec. October 12, 0.25 p.m.) Peking, October 12. Following the decapitation of three troopers at Wuchang, all the provincial troops mutinied, and aro now in possession of tho town. All tho official buildings, including the Treasury, have been bnrnod. Tho Viceroy has taken refuge on a Chinese gunboat. ; General Changpao was killed by a bomb. • Ho was one of the ablest officers in the Chinese Army. , Documents have been seized showing I that tho revolutionists intended to mako i the province of Hupoh their base, and from thence envelope the Yangtso pro- • vinces. I Tho Taotai has requested the Consuls to instruct foreign warships to guard the - harbour, and the Viceroy has urgently > appealed for the dispatch of a division from Tientsin. > The Consuls at Hankau have refused the request to patrol the river. , The revolutionists have written reqnestr ing tho Consuls to observe neutrality. Tho Tebels have attacked tho local , troops which are fleeing towards Hankau. i It i 3 feared that a state of chaos in | the currency will follow the destruction [ of the Treasury which supplied Wuchang, Hankau, and Hangyang with notes.