THE CHINESE REVOLT.
ELECTION OF A PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT. YUAN-SHIH-KAI CHOSEN. Nanking, February 16. Representatives of seventeen provinces unanimously elected Yuan-Shih-Kai provisional President. “REPUBLICAN DAY.” Wellington, February 16. The local Chinese Association re-, icejved .last night a copy of a cable 1 sent to the Young China Party in Melbourne by the Provisional Government in Nanking, stating that thei Manchu dynasty had abdicated, and the party has agreed to observe January 15 as a general holiday in honor of the occasion. It has h?en decided by the Chinese throughout New Zealand to observe Monday next as U holiday, and on that day most of thcii places of business will bo closed. ■/ ICII'.'- I ; I WEI-HAI-WEI INSURRECTION. (Received 17, H.,40 a.m.) Pekin, February 16. Outside Wei-hai-wei a hundred and fifty revolutionaries were killed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 19 February 1912, Page 7
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131THE CHINESE REVOLT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 19 February 1912, Page 7
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