UPHEAVAL IN CHINA.
ACTIVITY OF REBELS. BURNING PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Pekin, October .12. Following the Licapiiacuu of three troopers at Wuchang, all the j.uaincial troops mutinied, and arc now in possession of tne town. Ad tin- yainens, including iJie Treasiny, have been burnt. The Viceroy refuged on a Chinese gunboat. General Changpas .vas killed Ir- a bomb. Ho vas '-ne c; the ablest oflicors in the Oh'ns’o A: my. Documents sliow that the revolutionists intended to make Bupeh the base, and thence envelope the Vaugtso province. The Taotai requested the Consuls to instruct the foreign warships to guard the harbour. Tlie Viceroy urgently appealed to the authorities to despatch tne Tientsin division. The Consuls at Hankow refused a request to patrol the river. The revolutionists have written requesting the Consuls to observe neutrality. The rebels attacked the local troops, who arc lleeiug towards Hankow. It is feared that chaos will follow the destruction of the Treasury, which supplied Wuchang, Hankow and Hangyang with notes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 13 October 1911, Page 5
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163UPHEAVAL IN CHINA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 13 October 1911, Page 5
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