Tartars Run Amok

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 121, 13 November 1911, Page 5

Tartars Run Amok

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERISH. DEATH ROLL AT LEAST A THOUSAND. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received 11, 5.5 p.m. Pekin, November 11. The Imperialists are burning Nankin and looting private houses. Over 50,000 have left the city. The Tartar garrison, demented with the idea of self-preservation, ran amok, killing men, women and children indiscriminately. All students without queues were butchered. Even people in mourning were murdered, owing to the fact of their wearing white clothes, which were regarded as symbols of revolutionary sympathy. At least a thousand were killed. THE PREMIERSHIP. ROBBERS AT WORK. Received 13, 1 a.m. Pekin. November 12. Yuan-Shih-Kai has informed the Regent that his health prevented him assuming the Premiership. Robbers are burning and looting at Foo-Chau. The Imperialists are bombarding HanJ'ing. THE POSITION IN PEKIN. 250,000 INHABITANTS FLEE. Pekin, November 10. A quarter of a million inhabitants have fled.

Ball cartridges have been served out to the Legation guards. The shops are being barricaded. British bluejackets arc guarding the European quarter at Canton. Four guns have been landed. The New York Herald's Tokio correspondent reports that a transport carrying three thousand troops has left Yokohama, presumably for North China. REJOICINGS IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. Singapore, November 10. There are extraordinary rejoicings' amongst the Chinese in the Straits Settlements at the success of the revolution.

DEPARTURE OF AUSTRALIAN WARSHIPS. STATEMENT BY MR. FISHER. Melbourne, November 11. Mr. Fisher states that the visit of the warships to China is a special one as the result of the rearrangement of the fleet. It has nothing to do with the revolution. Ships might be sent from China to take their places. The matter was one on which a public announcement could not be made. TO HELP HIS COMPATRIOTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Saturday. Joseph Lone, an ex-inissionarv to the Chinese at Grevmouth. left Wollineton yesterday for China. He speaks English well, and is a naturalised British subject, sent by the Chinese to flcht for the Republicans. New Zealand Chinese subscribed funds for Lone, who is full of zeal. Interviewed, Lone said New Zealand Chinese were practically all revolutionaries, and in deadly earnest.