CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10450, 16 October 1911, Page 3

CHINESE RISING

REVOLUTIONARIES IN MANY PLACES. GOVERNMENT ADMISSION. - Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October/-14, 9 a.m.) PEKIN, October 13.. The Chinese Cabinet admits that the garrisons at Baoting-fu and Tienstin, and- even Penin, are honeycombed with revolutionaries. The rebels have captured Ichang (on the left bank of the Yangtse) and Yochau-fu, and isolated Chungking-fu (a city 832 miles above Hankau, and situated on a rocky promontory at the confluence of the Kialing with the Yangtse.) Chungking-fu is beyond the reach of foreign gunboats. The rebels are strongly entrenched at Wuchang and Hanyang, where guns have been mounted. Ample ammunition has been taken from the arsenal. The revolution aims at making Dr. Sim Yat Sen's 'brother, Sun Yu, President of the Hupeh.Provincial Assembly, which 'has already disavowed the Pekin Government. Tang Huateng, a noted scholar, is to be Viceroy of Hupeh.

LEADER OF MUTINEERS.

IMPERIAL EDICT.

(Received October 14, 9.5 a.m.) v | PEKIN, October 13. General Ti Quan Heng, who was the capable commander of the 21st Mixed Brigade, is leading the Hupeh mutineers. Batches o£ Government troops are arriving at Hankau. The revolutionaries are endeavouring to persuade them to rebel. The prisoners in the Hankau gaols have been released. Foreign bluejackets, under the Japanese Admiral, Kawashima, , are guarding the Consolates. AnTmperial edict offers a pardon to -the mutineers ;who v ßavp been coercedinto joining the movement if they express their repentence: General Chang Kao has been cashiered.

ARMYMANOUVRES CANCELLED,

TROOPS ORDERED TO FENGTAI. (Received October 14, 9.40 a.m.) PEKIN, October 13. The autumn army manoeuvres at Kaiping, 74 miles north-west of Tientsin, have been cancelled. The sixth division has been ordered to Fengtai.