CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10457, 23 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE RISING

A REMARKABLE EDICT AMNESTY TO REBELS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) PEKIN, October 21. An edict unparalleled in Manehu history, offers an amnesty to all classes of civil and military rebels surrendering. GOVERNMENT IN STRAITS. SEEKING ASSISTANCE. PAPER CURRENCY DISCREDITED (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) PEKIN, October 21. The Government ia in great financial straits, and is applying to the banks j and legations for financial assistance. HONGKONG, October 21. The foreign banks are making continuous large shipments of silver, including "British dollars, to North China, owing to the Chinese paper currency being di".credited and the market practically depleted of specie. BANKS SUSPENDING PAYMENT. STEPS TO AVERT A CRISIS. 1 (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) • SHANGHAI, October 21. Several native banks have suspended payment. Bankers' and merchants' guilds are negotiating to avert a crisis. ROYALISTS REPULSED. (Received October 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. The Daily Mail's Pekin correspondent states that it is reported that the Loyalists were repulced in north-west Hankow with a loss of 700 men. THE SECOND BATTLE. (Received October 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. The Chronicle's Shanghai representative says it is reported that a second battle lasted for ten. 'hours, chiefly at the station below the Japanese concession in Hankow. The rebels were victorious. j SUBTLESTRATEGY. (Received. October 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. The .Shanghai correspondent of the Chronicle gives the following incident as showing Lun Yat Sen's subtle strategy. When he started the revolution he seized the Viceroy of Juicheng and, under his seal, dispatched a messenger to the manager of the Hangyang arsenal urging him to come to the Viceroy's aid. Whilst the men were absent tho revolutionaries seized the arsenal. The manager afterwards retained his post under the revolutionaries. . ■ REBELS WINNING. (Received October 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. Reuter's Hankow correspondent reports the rebels a? winning. MODIFIED ARRANGEMENTS. (Received October 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. | The Times' Pekin correspondent j .states that the Government has modified its arrangements. It will now send from Manchuria to Shantung only a few thousand troops. This is attributed to a feeling that the two divisions entraining for Ha'nkow are sufficient to deal with the situation. Some think that' General Yuan-Shih-Kai will assume command of the troops. MOVEMENT OF TROOPS. (Received October 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. The Standard's Shanghai correspondent declares that the Imperials at Hankow have retired northwards. It is believed to be a strategic movement to join the Imperials arriving by train. REBEL ADVANCE. (Received October 21, 8.5 a.m.) HANKOW, October 20. The rebels advanced on Thursday, and found that the Imperialists had abandoned tho camp-3 which they had established. Fipson has been occupied, the invaders capturing some baggage and ammunition. A Chinese gunboat retired several miles down the river. Imperialists are ramped ten miles from Hankow. GREAT VICTORY AT HANKOW. 1 Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock. MELBOURNE, October 22. The Victorian Branch of the Young China League lias received a cable from headquarters stating that the revolutionaries had a great victory at 1 Hankow over a thousand Imperial troops, -,\'ho killed only tweniy or ; thirty of the rebels. FURTHER CONFIRMATION. TMPERIAN WARSHIP SUNK. • Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock. NEW YORK. October 21. I Cables received in San Francisco > from Chinese Republican leaders con- • firm the defeat of the Imperial forces ' at Hankow. > It is reported that an Imperial

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