CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10458, 24 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE RISING

IMPERIALISTS COMPLETELY ROUTED

PASSES HhLD BY THE REBELS.

CUTTING OFF ROYALISTS' RETREAT.

(Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.;

PEKIN, October 23

Many of the ishells fired at the Chinese gunboats at Hankow were merely painted wood. As the' outcome of corrupt practices, the foreign consuls at Hankow have proclaimed their neutrality. A third brigade of Imperialists wag completely routed at Hanau, and stampeded northward and returned to Sinyanchau. to await reinfoi* .oments.

The rebels are fortifying the hills. Yin Chang is nearmg Sin Yaa Chau witb 20,000 troops. It is believed that the rebels held the passes connecting Hanau and Hupeh, cutting off*the retreat of three thousand Imperialists fiom Hankow.

It is also regarded as> impassable for Yin Chang's forces. The rebels hold Kwang-Cbaa. sixty miles from Hankow, whe.*e the jiver is narrowest, for the purpose of haov rasing Sa4Dhen-Ping's fleet. It is stated at Shanghai that the Government's ■•jplicatL:i for a io.-m has been on the ground that it would be a h.eacn. of neutrality, which the Covers desire t<» cbserve.

Consular reports confirm the fall of Ohangsha.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENED.

' YUAN SHIH-KAI INCAPACI-

TATED

(Received Last Night, 9.5 o'clock.)

PEKIN, October 23. The National Asemjbly has opened.

The Speech from the Throne did not mention the rebellion.

An official despatch to the British Legation states that unless Yinchang obtains a decisive victory within a few days, the whole of the Yang-tse Valley will be ablaze. In reply to an edict, ordering him to co-operate to supress the revolution, Yuan-Shih-Kai states that his foot is not healed, and enumerates other complaints from which he is suffering, making, him unable to work at present, s A rescript has been issued, c"dering Yiuan-Sliih-Kai to resume hit duties when he is better.

Yuan-Sliih-Kai's reply was ironical, and he.will be dismissed, ostensibly owing to the imiries to his head and foot.

"AWAITING DEATH."

Sacheri Ping and Yin Chang, in a joint despatch, state that though the Imperialists were at first successful at Hankow, so many- were wounded that the force was enfeebled, and they w ere unable to secure reiinjforcements, and had to retire to the fleet, which is out of coal and rice. The despatch concludes: "We are now awaiting death."

RED GROSS SOCIETY.

NOT RECOGNISED. . >

(Received October. 23. 8.55,. a.m.)

PEKIN, October 22

The Red Cross Society has nt>t secured recognition by the leaders ( of the Imperial troops. As a coni'-e----quence, many of the wounded yiteire uneared for, and were subsequehtl;' killed or mutilated by civilian sympathisers with the revolt.

REBEL FLAC

HOISTED IN SYDNEY

(Received October 23, 9.35 a.m.)

SYDNEY, .October ?J

The revolutionary flag was hoist*l by the Chinese Masonic Society ir Sydney yesterday. There was j.o demonstration.

The revolutionary spirit h sprouling.

ANOTHER REBEL. ATTACK.

(Received October 23, 1 p.m.)

PEKIN, Ootober 22. The Hankau reikis attacked the Imperial troops at Seven Mile Ci'A.Sk. The Imperialists fled far r..>rthwnrd.