THE REVOLT IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 5 February 1912, Page 5

THE REVOLT IN CHINA.

A SINISTER SITUATION. WHOLESALE FLIGHT FROM MUKDEN MERCENARY TROOPS. EUROPEANS IN GRAVE DANGER. •y CaVU—Pmm AffrMiatttn—Ojyri^i Heceived 4, 5.5 p.m. Pekinj February 3. Yuan-Shih-Kai is awaiting the concentration of 20,000 Chinese troops at Pekin before the publication of the terms of abdication. Advices from Mukden show that, the payment of officials has been suspended. Disorders are feared, and the people are leaving Mukden wholesale, travelling northwards.

Mr. Maxwell, the Daily Mail war correspondent, described the impending troubles, saying that at Canton the majority of the garrison consist of bandits, pirates and mercenaries, who are likely to maintain discipline only as long as they are paid. The city is under a military dictator. Merchants have removed their valuable goods from the Island of Sameen, and trade with Hongkong has ceased. The troops on whom most reliance can be placed are proceeding north. Europeans are preparirig for emergencies at Sameen, which is a joint British and French concession. The island is mined and fortified, and has a garrison of 300, supported by French, German, American and Japanese gunboats.

A REPUBLICAN LOAN. Pekin, January 2. Yuan-Shih-Kai's soldiers have circulated thousands of leaflets alleging that a secret society at Pekin is seeking his death, and stating that, if, he is injured the soldiers will exterminate the whole generation of those responsible. Following a demand for ten million taels by the Republican War Minister from the China Merchant Steam NavK gation Company, the company has transferred its ships as security for a Republican loan, on the assurances that the company will be the object of the Republicans' special solicitude.