CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1916, Page 5

CHINA.

REBELS DEFEATED. *~ Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Jan. 15, C 45 p.m. London, Jan. 15. The Canton Government claims to have been victorious in engagements with the rebels on the 6th, 7th, and -Sth instant. The rebels were well supplied vrith arms and ammunition, but eventually the ammunition gave out and they i'ought desperately with bombs. When they were routed the slaughter was dreadful. Various garrisons are following up the band of rebels with a view to their extermination. , GERMAN INTRIGUES. The activity of German agents in the attempt to win the Chinese to their cause is unceasing (says the Peking correspondent of the London Times). A new and scandalous publication printed at Shanghai in English, giving a wholly false history of the war, is now being widely distributed gratis to universities, colleger, schools, and officials, and in addition every means is beinrr adopted to convince the Chinese that the German advance in the Balkans presages a triumphal march through Persia to India. ■Special attention is being devoted to Chinese Moslems, of whom there are some six millions, with the object of securing their co-operation in Chinese Turkestan. The Chinese Government continues to withstand these overtures, but Allied nationals view with anxiety the persistency of German intrigues. As China is the great field in which the Germans hope to recoup themselves at the end of the war, it is Iwped that the: closest attention will be given to measure) to frustrate GkrmMi sohamw, __ j