CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10450, 16 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE RISING

A GENERAL REPORT

CABLE NEWS

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REVOLUTIONISTS' APPEAL FOR MONEY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, October 14. The London "Daily Chronicle" publishes Sim Yat Sen's letters to an An-glo-American group of bankers, when visiting England in January last. The correspondence reveals the fact that the present rising lias been carefully engineered. Sun Yat Sen appealed for £'ooo,ooo to assist the movement. He declared that tho wholo of Southern China was ready to rebel. The correspondence shows that a Chinese bank and three rice mills at Bangkok, several merchants ia.t Singapore, and three mine-owners in the Malay States whose property aggre-■g-ates £2,000,000, offered the American capitalists to guarantee Sun Yat Sen's loan.

While the capitalists were inquiring Sun Yat Sen went 011 a secret mission. He afterwards reported that the various divisions of the modem-drilled army in the south Yangtse Valley were strongly pro-revolution, and an understanding had been reached whereby they would come over when the revolution gained a footing. The loyalty of seven divisions at Pekin., which Yuen-shi-kai had created, had greatly diminished since Yuen-shi-kai's degradation.

Sun Yat Sen added that another division in Manchuria, commanded by a revolutionary General, could be depended upon to operate against. Pekin. •

Many officers and sailors in the navy were also revolutionists. <3'he report continued that the recent intervention of the Chinese populace in the Makao dispute between China and Portugal, showed that the whole of the South was ready for a general uprising. j The present position, the report says, resembles a forest of dry wood. It requires the one spark, which is a half million loan. The leaders of the revolution are not men of financial standing, but their ability i* equal to that of any in the world. Dr. Sun Yat Sen offered the financiers the right of appointing nominees to control the finances. The revolution loan would be repaid many times over, he said, when a city j like Canton was captured. 1

AN OMINOUS OUTLOOK

A CORRUPT DYNASTY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, October 14. The Times' Pekin correspondent says that the sympathies of an immense ma ~s of the educated Chinese in Pekin are with the revolutionaries. There is little sympathy for. the corrupt, effete, Manchti Dynasty. The outlook for the Throne is ominous.

REFORM GOVERNMENT PROCLAIMED;

TROOPS ORDERED TO HANKOW. .(Received Last Night, o'clock:) - PEKIN", Otetfber 14. ' A Reform Government has been proclaimed at. Hankow. The revolutionaries have informed tho Consuls that all the treaties and loans already contracted' wilT be respected. j ! Hwang, the civilian leader of the' insurgents, is believed to- be a former associate of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. ■ It is reported that the soldiers at •Hupeh have not been paid for a year. , Yin Chang, Generalissimo of the Northern Army, has been ordered ' to Hankow with twelve thousand Imperial troops.

RE-ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY,

CORPSES STREW THE STREETS. THE REBELS RECRUITING. Received This Morning, 12.25 o'clock PEKIN, October 15. Yarig-shi-kai "has-been recalled from •the appointment of Viceroy of the Province of Hupeh and Hujian, and ordered to Wuchang to re-establish the Imperial authority of'Manchu. Corpses strow the streets of Wuchang. Fifty were found outside one gate. It is stated, that eight- hundred Manchus have been killed. Renter's Wuchang correspondent reports that a rebel army 26,000 strong is recruiting actively, and tlidt funds are plentiful.