CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10451, 17 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE RISING

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association —By 2??e©« trie Telegraph—Copyright.

REBELS JtEINFOHGEC HANKOW ISOLATED. (Received Last N-jyat, 9.45 o'clock.) PEKIN, October 16. The telegraphic communication with Changsha has been restored. Changsha is reported to be safe. Consuls at Hankow are sending ! European. women and children to Shanghai. Three thousand Honan troops encamped north of Hankow have joined the revolutionaries. A rebel arsenal at Hanyang is working double shifts and turning out twenty-five thousand rounds of ammunition daily. One hundred and: forty field pieces are ready. . Two thousand revolutionaries occupied Kiating. Four hundred rebels from Kiating are marching in the direction of Yachow. The revolutionaries consistently protect ohurches, and are issuing passports to missionaries. Hankow is now isolated, and the telegraphs are in, the hands of the revolutionaries, and trains have been stopped. The Chinese warships will issue a warning before bombarding the town. Foreigners will then leave for foreign concessions. The British Concular archives have already been transferred to the gunboat Perfect of Suifu, fearing the forcible opening of the prison and the release of prisoners.

REPORTS RECEIVED IN LONDON. GENERAL STAFF CONFIDENT. OF SUPPRESSING THE RISING. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, October 16. The Times' Pekin correspondent reports that though the edict curtly orders Yuan-shi-kai to Wuchang and does not attempt any reparation of his dismissal, he accepts, in, the grave emergency, the hardest post ;in the Empire, apparently confident of the loyalty "of his northerm" army, which is of his creation.

Thirteen transport trains left Pekin and Paoting-fu on Saturday and Sunday, and eleven leuve to-day and ten. on Tuesday. Altogether twenty thousand combatants are concentrated at the third station northwards of Hankow. The general staff are confident that the rebellion will soon be suppressed, and declare that Hankow stationis still in possession of loyal troops. A financial panic occurred at Pekin on Saturday. There were runs on the Government, banks and Native cash shops, but the disturbance was temporary.

The War Office's overtures with four foreign banking groups for a short loan to provide for the payment of northern troops met with objections. Firstly, if financing was begun, it must be continued, although the future was uncertain. Secondly, the aim of securing loans was obviously to indu(;e tho revolutionaries to believe tltat foreigners were contributing to suppress the, revolution. * ThirdlyptheThrone should be compelled to disgorge its hoarded millions.