Revolt in China.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 101, 19 October 1911, Page 5

Revolt in China.

A SERIOUS SITUATION. JAPAN BLAMED FOR THE RISING. REBELS MARCHING TOWARDS THE ROYALISTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Pekin, October 17. The troubles in Szechuan continue. The Government affects to regard the situation in the west as more serious than in Wuchang, owing to the impossibility of rapid transport. The semi-oflieial press ot Pekin is endeavoring to prove that the Japanese are at the bottom of the revolution in Wuchang. Admiral Sachengping has reached Hankow in a gunboat, and has assured the Consuls there is no danger to the concessions. When hostilities commenced four thousand Northern Imperial troops, were equipped near Hankow awaiting reinforcement. Two thousand rebels with artillery crossed the Yangtse Kiang to oppose the advance of the Imperial troops. Foreign warships arc flocking to Hankow. A Reutcr telegram states that the revolutionists offer IflOO taels for the capture of ex-Viceroy Juichang. It is reported that Manchu women at Pekin are changing into Chinese dress. The Chunchusese are extremely active in North Manchuria, and Russian troops have been ordered to repress them. . Berlin, October 17. Official advices state that landing parties from the German warships Leipzig, Tiger and Vaterland, assisted by volunteers' recruited from German residents of Hankow, are engaged in street fighting with a Chinese mob.

A FLANK ADVANCE. REVOLUTIONARIES FORTIFYING. ROYALISTS DISAFFECTED. ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE. Received 18, 10.30 p.m. Pckin, October 18. With a view to making a flank advance ten thousand troops are entraining at Tsininfua for Taku, and ten thousand have been shipped to Gangtszo. The Daily Mail's Hankow correspondent reports that the revolutionists are carefully fortifying the positions and enrolling enthusiastic volunteers. Numbers of the Northern troops, on arrival, are joining those at Yuan Shihkai's disposal. It is reported that the Royalist troops are disaffected and unreliable. Thousands of noncombatants are quitting Hankow. The British and Japanese admirals are defending the foreign concessions. Thirteen foreign warships are at their disposal. Troops arc going south in excellent spirits. The slaughter of Manchus at Wuchang and Hankow has ceased. The Republicans have ordered their followers to spare all who submit to the new Government. A man causing a disturbance was pursued and killed in the British concession in Hankow. Orders were at once issued that nobody must enter the concession. Parties from other warships besides the German participated in the fight with the Hankow mob. Despatches arc being sent wirelcssly from Hankow to Tsingtau by means of the German warships' apparatus. The revolutionary force surrounding Kiukiang demand surrender. The fall of Nanking is reported imminent.

The French Legation has learned that the Viceroy of Xanking is missing. Correspondents at Szcehuan ascribe the origin of the. unrest to the Pekin Government's decision concerning the Srechuan railway and the international loan. The latter concerns the Eehangkweifu line, a section of the Main Trunk railway, whereon the Chinese claim to have already spent four million teals. Railway officials and stitdents organised a spirited protest/and a deputation was unwillingly sent to Peking, and, despite its organisers' exhortations, riots, pillage, and incendiarism occurred in many localities. People are everywhere resolved not to pay taxrs unless the local company is empowered to continue to build the Szeehuan raihv;\v. The situation subsequently became worse.