CHINESE REBELLION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10453, 19 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE REBELLION

FALL OF NANKING IMMINENT. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. . (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) PEKIN, October 18. With a view of making a, flank advance, 10,000 troops are entraining at Tsinanfu for Taku, and 10,000 have been shipped to the Yangtse district. The Daily Mail's Hankow correspondent reports that the revolutionists are carefully fortifying the positions and enrolling enthusiastic volunteers. A number of Northern troops, on their arrival, joined Yuan-ShilvKai. The disposal is reported to be disaffected and unreliable. A thousand non-combatants are quitting Hankow. The British and Japanese admirals are defending the foreign concessions. Thirteen foreign warships are at their disposal. The troops going south are in ex--1 cellent spirits. The slaughter {of Monchus at Wuchang and Hankow has ceased. The Republicans have ordered their followers to spare all who submit to the new Government. A man causing a disturbance was pursued and killed in the British concession at, Hankow. Orders have beehissuedthat nobody must enter the concession. A party from other warships besides the Germans participated in the fight with the Hankow mob. Despatches are being sent wirelessly from Hankow to Tsingtau by means of a German warship apparatus. The revolutionary force surrounding Kinkiang demands surrender. The foil of Nanking is reported to be imminent. The French legation has learned that the Viceroy of Nanking is missing. A correspondent at Szeehuan ascribes the origin of the unrest to the Pekin Government's decision concerning the Sichuan railway international loan. The latter is concerned with the Chang-kwei-fu line, a section of the trunk railway, ota which the Chinese claim to have spent four million taels. Railway officials, and students at the 'railway school, organised a spirited protest. A deputation was unavailingiy sent to Pekin, and despite its organisers' exhortations, riots, pillage, and incendiarism occurred in many localities. The people are everywhere resolved not to pa.y the taxes unless the local company is empowered to continue to build the Szechuan railway. The situation subsequently became worse