CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10459, 25 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE RISING

FURTHER REBEL SUCCESSES

ANTI-FOREIGN OUTBREAK. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) PEKIN, October 24. The Rebels are advancing cautiously on Nortli Hankow, owing to the absence of intelligence as to the wheieabouts or tho Imperial troops. They are encountering slight guerilla opposition. A tug carrying rebels was unexpectedly lired on by a concealed Imperial battery at North Wuchang. When the third division of Imperial troops was ordered .south, one hundred and four deserted. A wild fire from the gunboats at Hankow caused a conflagration. Ichang and Changsha have been captured without opposition. An anti-foreign outbreak is feared at.Changsha. Local and foreign Custom officers have been ordered aboard the boats in the river. REBEL RECRUITS. FLOCKING INTO WUCHANG. NEGOTIATIONS RECOMMENDED. (Received This Morning, 1 o'clock.) P'EfclN, October 24. The rebel recruits are flocking into Wuchang. Owing to the Po.vers' recognition of the revolutionaries, the Privy Councillors have recommended the throne to negotiate with the latter.. SHANTUNG QUIET. CHINESE GUNBOATS COALING. (Received October 24, 8.5 a.m.) PEKIN, October 23. Well-equipped troops that have arrived at Hankow are joining the revolutionaries. The latter claim to have enlisted fifteen thousand old soldiers. Lin-Huan-Hung and Tang-Hua-Lung, revolutionary leaders, are organising a southern confederacy. They are willing to abandon North China to the Manchus. Pliantung is quiet. }; is officially stated that. General Yin Chang, commanding* the Imperial' forces, has reached the Siakan railway station, thirty miles north of Hankow. Jui-Cheng, late Viceroy of Hupeh, has arrived at Kin-Kiang, Kangsi, with tiiree gunboats. Hie boats are coaling and provisioning. UNCONFIRMED REPORT. (Received October 24, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 23. The newspapers publish an unconfirmed San Francisco telegram announcing that twenty thousand Imperialist troops were defeated in the mountains at Kwang-Si. The 1 mdon Missionary Society advises this ■; country stations have not been disturbed, and that the missionaries at Hankow and Wuchang are safe. GERMAN ACTION AT HANKOW. (Received October 24, 9.5 a.m.) PEKTN. October 23. Xt is officially announced that the German action on the 12th inst. was restricted to repelling an attempt to -.rvndo and plunder the German settlement. Nobody was injured.