THE CHINESE REVOLT.
EMPEROR’S GUARDIANS ISSUE THREE EDICTS.
MORE TROUBLE BREWING, Pekin, February 12. The Emperor’s two guardians, the Dowager Empress and Yuan-Shih-Kai, have agreed to the issue of three edicts to-day, the first approving of the treatment of Manchus, the second exhorting the people to remain quiet, and the third renouncing the throne, approving of the republic, and ordering Yuan-Shih-Kai to establish a Government in conjunction with the Nanking Government. The Revolutionaries have collected 55,000 troops at Nanking and 55,000 at Wuchang. They will soon aggregate 150,000 well-drilled troops. Nanking telegrams state that the location of the capital is the only outstanding .difficulty. General Homer Lea, the American military adviser to the Republican Government, is seriously ill. THE EDICTS ISSUED, i (Received 13, 8 a.in.) Pekin, February 12. The three edicts have been issued.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 41, 13 February 1912, Page 5
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135THE CHINESE REVOLT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 41, 13 February 1912, Page 5
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