REBELLION IN CHINA.
RAILWAY CAPTURED BY
KEBELS
GOVERNMENT TROOPS DEFEATED.
Received May 20. 8.8 a.m. LONDON. May 19
The Hongkong correspondent of the "Standard" reports that rebels at Yunnan captured the railway, defeating the Government troops.
Yunnan is a province in SouthWest China, bounded on the south by Anriam, Siam and Burma, with an area estimated at 122,000 square miles and a population of 4,000,000, having sunk from 15,000,000 through plague and the war of the Mohammedan Panthays (1855-72).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9094, 21 May 1908, Page 5
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79REBELLION IN CHINA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9094, 21 May 1908, Page 5
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