RISING IN CHINA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10449, 14 October 1911, Page 5

RISING IN CHINA

A WIDESPREAD REVOLUTION

CABLENEWS United, Press Association— -By. Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE GOVERNMENT STUPEFIED.

Lastt Night, 9.25 o'clock.)

PEKING, uctober 13. The Chinese rebellion i® the most formidable that has taken place since Taiping. It is thought to be part of a concerted movement to take the whole Empire and to create a Republic under Slungantsen. Misgovefniment, over-taxation, and Hood and distress have paved the way. The revolutionaries occupied Hankow unopposed. Random, shelling between the revolutionary fort® at Wuchang and loyal cruisers on the river ceased,' after British and Japanese protests that the concessions were endangered. The foreigners at Hankow,- Wuchang, and Hanyang have been siusmmoned to the foreign concessions! at Hiankowi, and report that they are being well treated at the hands of tb i revolutionists. Chansa has risen in rebellion, and th*,« Viiceroy'is yamen and a Tartar General's residence have been destroyed. ( The Peking-BJankow railway line has been torn up for a distance of twenty miles, \iSiilist bridges have been destroyed. Between 10,000 and 15,000 troops mutinied at Hiupeh. Thirty modern guns hove been captured. .. A Witchang edict cashiers the Viceroy, hut orders* him to rewfcake Wuchang under pain of severe punishment. The mint, with 2,000,000 taels of Government silver, was> taken at Hianyang. it is incorrect that Changpiao took refuge in a gunboat. The Government is stupefied at the disaffection among the troops. Admiral Sah's squadron has left &lo!angh(ai for Hankow. A state of semi-martial law exists at Peking. The residences of the Princes and. high officiails, and the city gates, are guarded.