Revolt in China.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 97, 14 October 1911, Page 5

Revolt in China.

SPREADING RAPIDLY. SUCCESS OF THE REBELS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright Pekin, October 12. The revolution is spreading rapidly. The insurgents captured Hanyang, ineluding the arsenal and Government ironworks. These works employ 3500 men. including many European superintendents. Its products compete successfully with the Steel Trust in American markets. Six thousand troops at Hankow mutinied and killed '250 Manchus. The insurgents in Szechuan have occupied Suifu and hold the country west of the Min river, between Kiating and Koanhsien. The missionaries at Wuchang are safe. The Minister of War has ordered two army divisions and a number of warships to Wuchang. A FORMIDABLE RISING. CAPTITCING THE WHOLE EMPIRE. RAILWAY LIXE TORN UP. FURTHER TROOPS MUTINY. THE GOVERNMENT STUPEFIED. Received 13, 0.25 p.m. Pekin. October 13. The present is the most formidable rising since the Taiping rebellion. It is part of a concentrated movement to take the whole Empire and create a republic under Sunyantsen. Misgovernment, over-taxation, flood and distress paved the way for the rebellion. The revolutionists occupied Hankowunopposed. The random shelling between the revolutionary forts at Wuchang and the loyal cruisers on the river ceased after British and Japanese protests. The giving of recent concessions endangered the safety of foreigners at Hankow, Wuchang and Hayang. Hankow reports that foreigners are well treated at the hands of the revolutionaries.

Chansha has risen, and the Viceroy's yamcu and the Tartar General's residence were destroyed. The Pekin-Hankow railway has been torn up for a stretch of twenty miles, and the bridges destroyed. Between ten and fifteen thousand troops mutinied at Hupeh. Thirty modern guns were captured at Wuchang. An Imperial edict cashiers the Viceroy, but orders him to retake Wuchang under pain of severe punishment. The report that the mint, with two million taels and Government silver, was captured at Hanyang and Changpiao is incorrect. The officials took refuge on a gunboat.

The Government is stupefied at the disaffection among the Irnops. Admiral Sab's squadron has left Shanghai for Hankow.

Semi-martial law obtains at Pekin. and the residences of princes and high officials and the city gates are guarded.

Writing some time ago from Yunnan Fn, in Western China, a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian said:

''Wherever one moves the absorbing topic of conversation is hostility to the Manelm dynasty. It is beoyiid doubt that in the event of an uprising the whole of Yunnan and a large fraction of Szechuan would entirely withhold support from the Government, and many of the mandarins would readily join the antidynastic movement. Tt is probable that in the whole of the Empire no province more than Yunnan has a greater proportion of population constantly in rebellion. The feeling now takes' a dual form—first, against the Manchus; second, against the foreigners. At the present time sanction to travel on the main road from the city eastward to the Yangtse Valley is still withheld, and it is clear that the Viceregal authorities of Yunnan are anxious that no foreigners should take advantage of their passports and travel in the danger zone. As a matter of fact, protection is refused until .sanction to move is given, passport or no passport."'