Revolt in China.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 98, 16 October 1911, Page 5

Revolt in China.

REBELS GAINING STRENGTH. THETR PLANS TOR THE FUTURE. BREAKING AWAY FROM PEKIN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Pekin, October 13/ The Cabinet admits that the garrisons at Paotingfu. Tientsin and even Pekin are honeycombed with revolutionaries.

The rebels have captured lehang and Yoehaufn and isolated Chungkung, which is beyond the reach of foreign gunboats. Anxiety is felt for the safety of the Friends' Foreign Mission. ' The rebels are strongly entrenched at Wuchange and Hanyang. Guns arc mounted, and they have ample ammunition for the. i'.rsenal. The revolution aims at making Dr. Sungatescno, brother of Sunyu, president of the Hupeh Provincial Assembly, which has already disavowed the Pekin Government. Tanghuateng, a noted scholar, is to be Viceroy of Hupeh. General Tiquankeng, the capable commander of the 21st Mixed Brigade, is leading the. Hupeh mutineers. Batches of Government troops are arriving at Hankow. The revolutionaries are endeavoring to persuade them to rebel. The prisoners in the Hankow gaols have been released.

Foreign bluejackets, under the Japanese Admiral Kawashima, are guarding the consulates. An edict has been issued offering pardon to mutineers who were coerced into joining, if they express repentance. Changpiao has been cashiered. The autumn manoeuvres of thirty thousand troops at Kaiping have been cancelled, and the sixth division has been ordered to Fengtai. THE AID OF FINANCIERS. SUNYATSEN THE REBEL. Received 14, 5.5 p.m. London, October W. The Daily Chronicle publishes Sunyatser/s letters to an Anglo-American group of bankers when visiting England in January last. The correspondence reveals the fact that the rising was carefully engineered. Sunyatsen appealed for half a million to assist the movemenj, and declared the whole of Southern China was ready to I rebel.

The correspondence shows that a Chinese bank, three rice mills at Bangkok, several merchants at Singapore, and three mine owners of the Malay States, wheae property aggregates two million sterling, offered American capitalists to , guarantee Sunyatsen's loan. While the capitalists were enquiring, Sunyatse.n went on a secret mission, and afterwards reported that various divisions of the modern drilled army on the South Yangtse were strongly pro-revolu-tion. An understanding had been reached whereby they would come over when the revolution had gained a foot- • ing. DISAFFECTED TROOPS. MAY JOIX REVOLUTIONARIES. Received 15, 5 p.m. London, October 14. The loyalty of seven divisions at Pekin, which Yuenshikai created, had greatly diminished since Yuenshikai's degradation. Sunyatsen added that another division in Manchuria, commanded by a revolutionary general, could be depended upon to operate against Pekin. Many officers and sailors in the navy also were revolutionists. ALL SOUTHERN' CHINA READY. REQUIRES ONE SPARK. Received li.">, 5 p.m. London, October 14. The recent intervention of the Chinese populace in the Makao dispute between China and Portugal showed that the w'holc South was ready for a general uprising. "The nresent position resembles a forest of drv wood, and requires but one spark (which is a half million loan) 10 set it ablaze. The leaders are not men of financial standing, but with ability equal to anv in the world/' WHEN CANTON FALLS. THE FINANCIERS WILL BE PAID. Received 15, 5 p.m. Sunyatsen offered financiers the right of appointing nominees to control the finances of the revolution. The loan, be said, would be repaid many times over, when a city like Canton was captured. EDUCATED UHNESE SYMPATHETIC. Received 15. 5 p.m. London. October 14. The Time* Pekin correspondent says the syiiipathie.. of the immense mass of educate-! Chinese et P'ckin are with the revolutionaries. There is little sympathy for the curiiipt and effete Manclm dynas-ty. and the outlook for the Throne is ominous. A REFORM OOYERXMENT PROCLAIMED. Received 15, 5 p.m. .Pekin. October 1-1. A reform Oovernment has been proclaimed at Hankow. > The revolutionists informed the consuls th:>t all treaties and loans already [ contracted would be respected. Hwang, a civilian leader of the insur- ' gents, is believed to be a former asso- , ciate of Sunyatsen. It is reported that soldiers at TTupeh l have not been paid for a year, i Yinchang, Oneralissimo of the novthJ ern army, has ordered to Hankow twelve thousand Imperial troops.

THE IMPERIAL 'AUTHORITY. CORPSES STREW WUCHANG. ARMY OP REVOLUTION GROWING. Received 16, 12.25 a.m. Pekin, October 15. Yuansliikui has been recalled, and has been appointed Viceroy of the Provinces of Hupe and Hunan. He has been ordered to Wuchang to establish the Imperial authority of the Manehus. Corpses strew Wuchang. Fifty were found outside one gate.

It is estimated that 800 Manehus were killed.

Reutcr's Wuchang correspondent reports that the rebel army of 26,000 is still recruiting actively, and that funds are plentiful. •

REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN CHINA. Some time ago there appeared in the Westminster Gazette an interesting article on "Political Parties in China," by a Chinese student. Referring to the Revolutionary or Republican Party, he stated that the chief strength of the party lay in the lower classes—in the various secret societies. In 1900, when the party attempted a rising at Hankau, it had in its ranks for the first time men of eminent learning. Since that year it has steadily gained strength by the voluntary adherence of mem of ability and position. The aims of the Revolutionary Party are thus described by its leader:—"The foremost object of our party is to ensure entire political freedom by overthrowing the present Government, and establishing a republic in its stead. The pernicious traditions of ( the official world and the evil influence of the Court can only be swept away by a revolution. A constitution under the present regime would bo worse than useless, since the old abuses would continue, with a mock parliament at its back. A radical change is absolutely necessary, for the okl and the new are irreconcilable—one must be the victim. ... It has been argued by Constitutional Monarchists that a revolution means a disturbance which would inevitably bring foreign interference, and the instance of the Tai-ping rebellion is often quoted. But the" failure of the Tai-ping rebellion was caused by their lack of higher inspiration, their ignorance, and their cruelty. We revolutionists will take care not to repeat their mistakes. I firmly believe that if a rising be solely directed against the Government, fully respecting the rights and safety of the foreign community in China, and avoiding to do any harm to commerce, no foreign Power will interfere Once the Government is overthrown, reorganisation would be a comparatively easy task. All the foolish restrictions of trade would be removed, and the country would soon recover from the economic distress, and we believe that the • Powers would want no more than to ask us to acknowledge all the obligations entered upon by the present Government."