THE CHINESE REBELLION.
(Received October 12, 8.5 a.m.) PEKIN, October 11. The Young China revolutionaries are burning Wuchang. The Viceroy's yamen has been destroyed. Fighting continues, but foreigners are safe. Volunteers at Hankow are standing to arms day and night. The foreign consuls have telegraphed for further assistance. Japanese and American cruisers are expected and other gunboats are hurrying there. European, women, and children are taking refuge on the river boats.' (Wu-Chang has a population of over one million. The city is on the Yangtse-kiang river, 500 miles from the coast; Chung-tu, where a rebellion broke out a month ago, is in. the same lattitude, but is 600 miles further Tip tdiei river.) (Received October 12, 10.45. a.m.) PEKIN, October 11. The revolutionaries at Wuchang have issued a proclamation threatening to decapitate anybody injuring foreigners. The present movement is directed against the Manchn domination. The rebels in Szeohuan have captured Keiting and Yachowfa.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10448, 13 October 1911, Page 3
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153THE CHINESE REBELLION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10448, 13 October 1911, Page 3
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