PENITENT MANCHUS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1279, 7 November 1911, Page 5

PENITENT MANCHUS.

1 ANOTHER EDICT. REVOLUTIONARIES NOT " WICKED REBELS." i By Tele£rrat>h—Prcas Association—Con.yriirhl (Rcc. November G, 8.35 p.m.) Poking, November 6. An Edict has been issued directing tho Assembly to hold u Goneral Election. The Edict agrees to the recognition of (he rebels' political party, and states that the revolutionaries are different from tho "wicked rebels" of former dynasties. Tho damage done by the llankau fires on Monday amounts to -£5,500,C00. Further fires occurred on Thursday, when an area two miles long by half a mile was devastated- ' I'hc blind boys of tho Wosleyan Mission had a reinarkablo escape. An appeal is mado iu the Edict for concord among Chinese and Manchus. It also approves of General Yuan Shih-Kai's action in endeavouring temporarily to suspend hostilities. FIGHT AT KIANGAN ARSENAL. Shanghai, November 5. Six men were killed and ten wounded at' tho Kiangnan arsenal, in consequence of the rebels dynamiting the gates, which the loyalists defended in order to cover tho escape of tho Director of tho Arsenal, Chang. The Shanghai revolutionaries art) distributing new rifles to all-comers, on condition that they wear tho rebel badge.