CHAOS IN CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1489, 11 July 1912, Page 5

CHAOS IN CHINA.

, CORRUPTION AND DISORDER- i RUMOURS OF NEW REVOLUTION, Ity Telegraph—Press Association—OopsTi'eht - Port Darwin, July 10. Chinese files state Mint China is in a chaotic condition politically, and in a hopeless tangle liuniiicin There is wholesale swindling corruption, particularly by high military ofiicers, who are alleged to lx> drawing pay for thousands of non-existent troops. With the avowed purpose of) putting down lawlessness, wholesale decapitations and other cruelties are practised under the new regime nqnal in horror to some of the most bloody records under tho old Manchu rule. Tho Central Government is without revenue, owing to the provincial governments retaining nil money collected from flie respective provinces. ' Tho country is flooded with Government money that is practically valueless. Hordes of bandits are ravaging certain districts, and piracies on the West River and other waterways arc still frequent, despite the fact that, most of the rivers aro- patrolled by gunboats. It is alleged that many innocent people have been beheaded, whose only crime was that tlicy excited the enmity of some official in power. < There is general discontent over tho present conditions, and there are rumours that further revolutions are being, hatched in Hong-Kong.