CHINESE REVOLUTION

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1069, 14 November 1911, Page 3

CHINESE REVOLUTION

Pekin, November 11

The Imperialists are burning Nankin and looting private houses.

Over 50,000 people have left the city.

The Tartar garrison, demented with the idea of self-preservation, ran amok, killing men, women, and children indiscriminately". All students without queues were butchered. Even people iu mourning were murdered owing to the fact that their white clothes (white being the Chinese mourning colour) were regarded as symbols of revolutionary sympathies. At least a thousand people were killed. Pkkin, November 12. Yuan Sbi-kai has announced that his health has prevented him from assuming the premiership. Robbers are burning and looting F'oochau. The Imperialists are bombarding Hanyang. A quarter of a million inhabitants have fled. Ball cartridges have been served to the Legation Guards. The shops are beginning to barricade. British bluejackets are guarding the European quarter at Canton. Four guns have been landed. Nkw York, Nov. 10. The New York Herald’s Tokio correspondent stales that transports carrying three thousand troops left Yokohama presumably for North China.

Singapore, Nov. 10.

There is extraordinary rejoicing amongst the Chinese in the Straits Settlements over the success of the revolution.

Melbourne, Nov. 11

The Federal Prime Minister, Mr Fisher, states that the visit of the warships Pegasus and Prometheus to China is a special one, the result of a rearrangement, and has nothing to do with the revolution. Ships might be sent from China to take their places. The matter was one 011 which no public announcement could be made.