Revolt in China.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 115, 4 November 1911, Page 5

Revolt in China.

TROOPS MUTINY. IMPERIAL PRISONERS ASSASSINATED. REBELS BEHEAD THEIR LEADERS. By Gable— Press AssocisMnn—Copyright Received 4, 12.43 a.m. Pekin. November 3. A tWrd edict instructs the Assembly to draft a constitution. The Assemblv insists on the 6iipnres*ion of all Manchn prerogatives, the abolition of eumichs, and tiie abolition of queues. An official despatch from Shih-Kai-Tan announces that a regiment of Shnnsi troops, proceeding to assist the Imperial, wts at Shan-Si. mutinied. After killing a brigadier-general they bombarded a Manehu city, and massacred a thousand Manchus, including the Governor and his family. Advices from Hankau state that the rebels beheaded the commander of Friday's battle, suspecting treachery. Other officers suffered the same fate. A foreigner reports that he saw the rebels kill twenty Imperialist prisoners, and a thousand wounded rebels. A battery on the Wou-Chang side shelled the Russian steamer Poltava. SUSPENSION OF HOSmiTIES. URGED BY THE THRONE. Pekin, November 2. The Throne has ordered Yuan-Shih-Kai to return to the Assembly, and telegraphed to Lt-Yuan-Hmg urging the suspension of hostilities pending negotiations. , Li-Yuan-Hung has agreed to negotiate with the Imperialists. Yuan-Shih-Kai has sent four sons to the London Missionary Society's College at Tientsin. DISLOCATION OF TRADE. Pekin, November 2. The Cotton Yarn Guild has authorised the repudiation of forward contracts owing to the dislocation of trade arising from the revolution.■-