CHINA IN REVOLT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 5

CHINA IN REVOLT.

A GREAT RISING. CONCERTED MOVEMENT TO FOUND REPUBLIC, GOVERNMENT STUPEFIED. Dy Telcerapb-Press Association-Copjright (Rec. October 13, 9.25 p.m.) Peking, October 13. Tho present rising in tho Yangtse-kiang provinces is the most formidable since tho Taiping rebellion of 1850. It is part of a concerted movement to take tho whole Empiro and create a republic under Dr. Sun Yat Sen, leader of tho Chinese Revolutionary parly. Mis-government, over-taxation, floods, and distress have paved the way for a great rising. _ The revolutionists occupied Hankan nnopposed. Some random shelling took place between tho revolutionary forts at Wuchang and the loyal cruisers on tho river, but ceased after protests by tho British and Japanese that their concessions wero endangered. The foreigners at Hankau, Wuchang, and Han-yang havo been summoned to the foreign concessions. A Hankau report states that the foreigners have been well treated at tho hands of the revolutionaries. Chang-sha, tho capital of tho province of Hunan, which lies about 200 miles south of Hankau, has risen. The Viceroy's yamo'i and tho Tartar general's residence have been destroyed.' Tho Peking-Hankau railway has been torn up for a stretch of twenty miles, and tho bridges destroyed. Between ten and fifteen thousand troops have mutinied in the province of Hupoh and thirty modern guns have been captured by tho insurgents at Wuchang. An Imperial Edict cashiers tho Vicoroy of Hupeh, but orders him to retake Wuchang under pain of severo punishment. The Mint, with two million taels of Government silver, has been captured at Han-yang. Tho statement that General Changpiao had been killed is incorrect, Ho took refuge on a gunboat. The Government is stupefied at the disaffection among (ho troops. Admiral Sail's squadron has left Shanghai for Hankau. / A state of semi-martial law prevails in Peking, whero the residences of tho princes and ■ high officials, and tho city gates, aro being guarded.