Reported Fall of Pekin.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 November 1911, Page 3

Reported Fall of Pekin.

FLIGHT OF THE CHINESE = I RMPBROB. NEW GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED. {.IST ELBOTRIO TILEQRAPB -COPYRIOHT.I [PKR PRKBB ASSOCIATION.] " (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 7. Tlic flight of the Chinese Emperor and tlie fall of Peking are reported. Telegrams to San. Francisco from Chinese papers so far do not confirm tho report. PEKIN, .November 7. jManchu soldiers have assassinated Wu, the new Governor of Sha.nsi. It is reported from Shanghai and Singapore, that Peking 'lias" Mien. Center's Peking correspondent today <loos not mention tin's. CHINESE MOVEMENT IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, This Day. A branch of the Young China League has been formed in Sydney with the ohjeet of assisting the esinMishnient of a republic in Oliiim. WU'S CAREER. PEKIN, November 7. Wu was killed while asleep in a tent by assassins, who alleged that ho was a revolutionary. Wu, who was a brilliant yonng officer, was educated in Japan, and sympthised with reforms. He was sent to Shansi to persuade the revolutionaries that their demands for essential reforms would ho conceded. Chang Sao Tseng proceeds on a similnr mission to Yangtze. Tlio Governor of Sncimn has joine<l the rebels, wlio arc in possession of the southern .half of Kiangs'i. RRITISH TROOPS MOVE. Two hundred and fifty British troops from Hong Kong hove been sent to Shanghai, and 200 Russians from Tientsin. Tho Regent's brother, Tsaihsun. who was acting as -Minister of the Navy, .has disappeared, and is supposed to have fled. Liqunnhung inthat the Imperial family be pensioned and proceed to .Tehol. He proposes a. Republican Union, the States of which will be. as nearly as mutually independent. (Chronicle Note: .Tehol (Ohong-to) s in the north of Peehili towards the borders of Mongolia.) LONDON, November 7. ', Tlie Daily Mail's Tientsin corres- < pomlrnt states that Pekin wns " r o at noon.